Behind The Artist

My name is Sean Bienhaus, and I’m an independent singer/songwriter and indie rock artist from Hamilton. As an artist my focus is on honesty, poetry, and storytelling, with songs revolving around themes of mental illness, community, love, and resilience. 

I started out as a guitarist, playing rock songs with my high school band, but with the onset of lockdown in 2020, I began experimenting with home recording and singing. After putting out my first full-length album in late 2021, (”You Won’t Ever Know”) I found a real love for music production and went off to study audio production and engineering at the college level, immersing myself in the art of recording. Today I not only write, record, and produce my own music, but also regularly work with other artists on their own projects. Outside of my original music, I play full-time as a gigging musician - singing, and playing guitar all across Southern Ontario as a one-man acoustic act, playing close to 150 shows in the last year alone at everything from festivals, to bars, breweries, farmers markets, art galleries and more! 

In 2024, I began to put out recorded music again with the release of “I Didn’t Know How to Leave” - an EP grounded in acoustic and alt rock sounds with themes of tragedy, mental illness and love. I followed this up with a live album recorded at Hamilton’s own Supercrawl a few months later. Since then, I’ve put out a dozen singles, got my live band back together and am soon putting out my sophomore album “In Everything” - an album that not only brings my music back to its loudest, deepest and most complete, but also dives deeper into the relationships we have with those closest to us, and how they show up “In Everything”.