Damion Hudson (born January 11, 1984), better known by his stage name Pennjamin Bannekar is an American independent music artist and songwriter.
Pennjamin Bannekar | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Damion Hudson |
| Born | January 11, 1984 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Hip Hop, Soul |
| Occupations | Rapper, Songwriter, Performer |
| Labels | ILLwrite Music Group |
| Website | www.pennandpencil.com |
Music career
editPennjamin Bannekar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan but raised in Chicago, Penn as he is often called, discovered his love for music at an early age. Falling in love with the creative process and writing Penn decided to major in Communications and graduated from University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. College was where Penn began to grow as an artist and started to receive acclaim. Penn came back to Chicago and joined the group Project: Fr3sh. While in Project: Fr3sh Penn changed his name from Penn the God to Pennjamin Bannekar. Given the name by his friends as a joke, he began to love the meaning behind it and chose to use it as his stage name. After a 2-year run with the group Penn went solo and began to become the unsung hype of Chicago’s hip hop scene. His first solo project was his mixtape Hello World. The release of Hello World had many people clamoring for more [1][2][3] The success of Hello World set up the release of his first album HeartBeat. HeartBeat was released May 3, 2011. The first single from HeartBeat was ILLwrite. The single was a great introduction of who he was and was picked up by MTV [4] HeartBeat went on to Be named Album Of The Month by some critics [5] after landing write ups in the Chicago Tribune and touring with Dwele[6] Elzhi[7] Bilal Oliver[8] KRS-One[9]<Penn’s success started to materialize.[10][11][12][13][14]
Discography
editSingles
edit- 2016: Maybe featuring Tooty
- 2016: Bodies featuring Dhniera Blu
- 2016: Congratulations
- 2015: Light It Up
- 2015: Likes
- 2015: Thief featuring Felly the Voice
- 2015: Word
- 2014: ArtOfficial
- 2014: Never Go Against B
- 2013: ILLwrite Too
- 2013: Same Ol Love Song
- 2011: Counterfeit [15]
- 2011: ILLwrite [16]
- 2010: Set It Off [17]
- 2009: Hello World [18]
- 2009: Love As Completion [19]
Albums
edit- 2018: 1/11
- 2015: Paper Plane Pilots
- 2011: HeartBeat [20]
References
edit- ^ "Penn Hello World". Online Article. Ruby Hornet.
- ^ "Love As Completion". Online Article. All Hip Hop.
- ^ "Hello World". Online Article. All Hip Hop.
- ^ "Pennjamin Bannekar ILLwrite". Online Article. MTV. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012.
- ^ "Track Off". Chicago Red Eye.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite".
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite".
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite".
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite".
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite". Online Article. Daryl The Writer.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite". Online Article. Bring Da Ruckus.
- ^ "Hip Hop Ruckus: PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite". Online Article.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite". Online Article. Indie Hip Hop.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR ILLwrite". Online Article. Fake Shore Drive.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR Counterfeit". Online. Fake Shore Drive.
- ^ "Pennjamin Bannekar ILLwrite". Online Article. MTV. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR Set It Off". Online. Power 105 New York.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR Hello World". Online Article. All Hip Hop.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR Love As Completion". Online Article. All Hip Hop.
- ^ "PENNJAMIN BANNEKAR Album Drops Today". Online.