Benny Rivers

It began posting official lyric videos on its YouTube channel in April 2026, and its single "Step by Step in Time" went on, by the same biography's account, to top Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart; the debut album Where The Hurt Lives followed on 19 June 2026 and reached the Billboard blues chart, with a second album, This Old Soul, on 31 July. Releases carry the act's own name on their rights line, and no page names the person who makes the music. Listeners who came across the songs through recommendations, including a student writer in April 2026, have written about only later learning the singer was an AI creation. On 2 October 2026 its Spotify profile showed 424,976 monthly listeners.