īenee's follow-up EP, Stella & Steve, was released on 15 November 2019. The EP also earned Benee the award for Best Solo Artist at the 2019 New Zealand Music Awards in November 2019, where she also won awards for Single of the Year with " Soaked", Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Pop Artist. The EP, which was described by George Fenwick of The New Zealand Herald as "a funky, sun-soaked record", peaked at #13 on the New Zealand Albums Chart and at #75 on the Australian Albums Chart. She had signed to Republic Records in early 2019, prior to this release. Under the moniker of "Bene", released her debut EP Fire on Marzz on 28 June 2019, before later adding an "e" because of "pronunciation woes", and copyright issues. In February 2019, Benee supported Lily Allen for an Auckland show during her No Shame Tour. 2018–2019: Fire on Marzz and Stella & Steve As Bene, she earned her first career entry on the Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2018 with "Soaked" at #58. Her music caught the attention of Josh Fountain, a producer and member of the band Leisure, with whom she worked on both her 2017 debut single "Tough Guy" and her 2018 single " Soaked". After dropping out of a communications degree at the Auckland University of Technology after two weeks, during what she called "a quarter-life crisis", she decided to enter the music business professionally. 2017–2018: Online beginnings and solo debut īenee began her music career by posting covers to SoundCloud, and began making her own music in her final year of high school. Benee attended an all girls Catholic school, St Mary's College, where music was compulsory for four years. Benee later became interested in writing and recording music at the age of 17, after deciding that she did not want to pursue a career in water polo. She claims it "was life" and that she at one point hoped to represent New Zealand competitively. Eventually, Benee dropped all music in order to prioritise water polo. From the age of eight, Benee began taking guitar lessons in primary school before starting saxophone lessons in high school. She grew up in a "really musical" family with parents who would expose her to the catalogs of Radiohead, Björk and Groove Armada. Stella Rose Bennett was born and raised in the suburb of Grey Lynn in Auckland.
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