Real name: Carles Benavent Guinart

Effective period / Period of releases: 1983 - 1998

Spanish bass player, born March 1, 1954 in Barcelona.
Benavent's greatest contribution to music is to have given a major role to bass guitar in flamenco music with the Paco de Lucia Sextet in the 1980's. He's played too with Miles Davis, Chick Corea and El Camarón De La Isla.
At 13 he founded the blues trio Crac (2) with Salvador Font (drums) and Emili Baleriola (guitar). In 1969 the three of them joined Enric Herrera to refound Máquina. In 1975 he founded Música Urbana with Joan Albert Amargos (piano, clarinet), Salvador Font and Lluis Cabanach (guitar).

He has also played with a lot of Spanish jazz-rock musicians, including Kitflus, Tito Duarte, and Jorge Pardo.