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= Kyteman = Kyteman, artist name of Colin Benders, (Utrecht, 5 december, 1988)is a Dutch Hiphopartist.

Childhood
Colin Benders' parents got to know eachother in the squatting-hippie scene of Utrecht. His father is a philosopher/esthete and former teacher and faculty director of de Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. His mother is afro-american (born in Harlem), she grew up in Paris, and lived in various other countries (Italy, Germany), before she moved to Holland.

For his third birthday, Colin gets a trumpet from his uncle Jacky Terrasson, a jazzpianist from New York. At the age of six, when all his frontteeth are full grown, he can give the trumpet a try. His uncle takes Colin to all kinds of festivals (for example North Sea Jazz Festival).

Benders grows up in Sterrenwijk, Utrecht. Primary school is not easy for Colin, various diagnoses, like ADHD, are made. When he is eight, he switches from his old school to the Kathedrale Koorschool Utrecht, where he got the chance to develop his musical talents. For a long time Kyteman is the precentor of the choir. He stops singing at the age of fifteen.

After primary school Colin goes to Secundary school for Young Talents, linked to the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he can specialize in playing the trumpet. After he flunks fourth grade one time (he does HAVO), it is clear that Colin will not pass for his exams. The Royal Conservatory directly grants him special permission to go to their school, but after two years he also quits there.

Solo
At the age of eigtheen, Colin moves to another part of Utrecht. He spends three years writing and recording his debut album The Hermit Sessions. He has little money left, eats leftovers or nothing and uses drugs. Collin's struggle in life during this period is reflected in his music.

After he completes the album, in 2009, he tours through Europe with his Kyteman's Hiphop Orchestra.

Since then, he has played and toured with Relax, Krezip , Voicst , Wouter Hamel en C-mon & Kypski In October 2010 he played two songs with Sting, Desert Rose and All Would Envy.

Hermit Sessions
The Hermit Sessions was released in 2009 and the music was described as a mix of hip-hop and jazz laced with tender melodies and raw beats. The album was a great success in the Netherlands; Is has reached the top five of the Dutch Album Charts, sold over 75000 copies, and has kept a position in the charts for more than two years. With this album, they won all the major music prizes in the Netherlands.

The Kyteman Orchestra
The word Hiphop, which was first in the name Kyteman's HipHop Orchestra, vanished. That is because the music on the album, covers more than only hiphop music. The orchestra now consists of eighteen musicians, opera singers and a choir.

In an with Kyteman, he said the following about the album: “This is a collection of sounds, somewhere between opera, hip-hop, drum & bass, electro, minimalism and all kinds of other genres that I can’t even begin to describe, for I don’t have the words for them. All the instrumentals for this record were done in one take, with practically no edits whatsoever. So we played everything exactly as you hear it on the album.”

In the upcoming months The Kyteman Orchestra will be performing at many festivals and stages, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival and A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise. They are planning an international tour in 2013.