Incredibly talented and barefoot musician performed an amazing Piano cover of Toto’s ‘Africa’ using every part of the instrument.
Peter Bence is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist, recording artist, composer and producer who holds the Guinness World Record for being the “Fastest Piano Player”. He has taken the Internet by storm with his piano arrangements of Michael Jackson, Queen and Sia collecting over 300 million video hits and a huge following on YouTube and Facebook over the past 2 years.
And now he has added Toto to the cover line up.
He has achieved sensational success with his edgy, percussive and expressive playing style that has broken down boundaries between classical and popular music. He takes the piano to a whole new level, which inspires both younger and older generations of musicians and music lovers from everywhere around the world.
Bence began uploading videos to YouTube while at Berklee and in 2015 with his arrangement of Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ he quickly rose to fame, collecting a whopping 10 million hits over just a few days, becoming a massive viral sensation. Now he has over 300+ million accumulative video views on Facebook and YouTube combined.
In the last year alone he has performed for tens of thousands throughout 20 countries, opened BBC’s Proms In The Park 2017, in Hyde Park, London for 50,000 people, and was featured the Ellen DeGeneres Show’s website, BBC, Buzzfeed, 9GAG, Classic FM, iHeart Radio or Billboard.
He is currently finishing his debut album, which will feature some of his best covers and solo piano compositions. The album is to be released later this year.
The very talented and barefoot Bence recently performed a highly percussive piano cover of the the internet’s favorite song -“Africa” by Toto. What made this performance so remarkable was that Bence used every part of the instrument to create different textures and colors within the song, and the social media users are loving the cover.
The video racked up over a million views in just a couple of days.
“One of the greatest songs ever written – with a touch of my pianery… 😉 I hope you’ll like it as much as I did making it.”
Watch the awesome video below:
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