Benesser

The first known inhabitant of the town Dala-Järna in central Sweden was a man named Benesser and he built a white chapel by the water in the 13th century that still stands today. In this small town of 1,500 people, David Olsson, Henric Hermansson, and Robert Olsson grew up doors away from each other and started playing music together at the age of 9. They would practice in a barn next to the house of drummer David's parents. At the time they didn't all have their own instruments so when they got their first live gig only David and Henric performed. When Robert got his first bass guitar as a Christmas present the following year, it got a whole lot easier for the band to practice. In 1998, the band No Brakes was formed by these three and they started playing quite a bit live and won the Musik Direkt competition for their province in 2006. By 2007, they had started finding their sound and after hearing the story about the chapel in their town, changed their name to Benesser. 2008 saw them win the Garagerocken contest for unsigned band not long after they played Sweden's largest Christian music festival.