Oscar Benton
Oscar Benton enjoyed a lengthy career as a blues singer, but he was born with
the very unlikely bluesman moniker Ferdinand van Eis on February 3, 1949 in
Haarlem, Netherlands. Before he was 20, his first group, the Oscar Benton Blues
Band, put out their debut album, 1968’s Feel So Good. Two more LPs were issued
over the next three years, and then Benton enjoyed a pair of successful singles
with Monica Verschoor, a Dutch singer who brought a poppier sound to his bluesy
approach. He formed a new band, Blue Eyed Baby, who released a self-titled album
in 1974. He finally began a prop...
