Behind The Artist

My name is Sean Bienhaus, and I’m an independent artist, performer, and producer from Hamilton, Ontario.

As an artist my focus is on honesty, poetry, and storytelling. My songs revolve around themes of mental illness, community, love, and resilience, with music centred in sounds of folk, pop and rock.

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. After putting out my first full-length album in late 2021, (”You Won’t Ever Know”) I found a love not just for musical creation, but for the art of production. I decided that this was something worth learning about, 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.

Following the pandemic, I began playing live around the city and discovered a deep love for it. In 2023, I began working steadily as a gigging musician and artist - singing, and playing guitar all across Southern Ontario, occasionally supported by a backing band, but mostly acting as a one-man acoustic act, playing over 60 shows in 2024 alone at festivals, bars, breweries, farmers markets, art galleries and more!

Recently, I’ve been hard at work on expanding my discography, and In the last year I’ve put out a new EP, 2 new singles, and a live album recorded at Hamilton’s own Supercrawl. I am currently in the process of recording my sophomore album, heading from my singer / songwriter roots into a more pop / rock direction.

Song List

I perform a wide variety of songs from all eras of popular music. Here are a few covers from my acoustic catalogue!

  • Yesterday

    Come Together

    Twist and Shout

    Eleanor Rigby

    A Day In the Life

    Mamma Mia

    Dancing Queen

    You Can’t Always Get What You Want

    Paint it Black

    If You Could Read My Mind

    I Will Survive

    Landslide

    Go Your Own Way

    Hound Dog

    Folsom Prison Blues

    Crocodile Rock

    Tiny Dancer

    Hotel California (Am)

    My Generation

    Anthony’s Song

    Hooked On A Feeling

    Wish You Were Here

    Rockin' In The Free World

    Born To Run

    Psycho Kiler

    I Don’t Want To Set the World on Fire

    All Along The Watchtower

    Knockin’ On Heavens Door

    Like A Rolling Stone

    Superstition

    Sweet Caroline

    Roxanne

    Country Roads

    You Make My Dreams Come True

    Dream On

  • Jersey Girl

    Running Up That Hill

    Dancing In the Dark

    I’m On Fire

    Hungry Heart

    Lovesong

    Boys Don’t Cry

    Friday I’m In Love

    Hallelujah

    Everybody Knows

    Won’t Back Down

    Free Falling

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody

    Purple Rain

    Drive

    Burning down the House

    Naive Melody

    Faith

    Modern Love

    Everybody Wants to Rule the World

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    Beat It

    Summer of 69

    Livin’ on a Prayer

    Don’t Stop Believing

    Blister In The Sun

    I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

    Sledgehammer

    Crazy Train

    There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

    The Power of Love

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love

    Sweet Dreams

    Dirty Old Town

    Uptown Girl

    Take On Me

    With or Without You

    Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

    Boys of Summer

    Jump

    Jack And Diane

  • Come As You Are

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

    Heart Shaped Box

    Say It Ain’t So

    Buddy Holly

    Don’t Look Back In Anger

    Champagne Supernova

    Wonderwall

    Supersonic

    Brian Wilson

    If I Had A Million Dollars

    Losing My Religion

    Everybody Hurts

    Man On The Moon

    It’s The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

    Bobcaygeon

    Wheat Kings

    Ahead By A Century

    New Orleans is Sinking

    Grace Too

    Fifty Mission-Cap

    Poets

    My Hero

    Everlong

    Under the Bridge

    What’s Up?

    Shine

    Basket Case

    Good Riddance

    Karma Police

    1979

    Where Is My Mind?

    Here Comes Your Man

    Zombie

    Nothing Compares 2 U

    Home For A Rest

    Closing Time

    Creep

    Last Kiss

    It’s All Been Done

    One Week

    You Get What You Give

    Baby One More Time!

    Iris

    One

    Santeria

    Friends In Low Places

    One Hand In My Pocket

    Song 2

  • Sugar We’re Going Down

    Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

    Mr. Brightside

    All The Small Things

    I Miss You

    Viva La Vida

    Yellow

    Seven Nation Army

    Use Somebody

    Sex On Fire

    Kryptonite

    Teenage Dirtbag

    The Middle

    Valerie

    Time To Pretend

    All Star

    Locked Out Of Heaven

    Numb

    You Belong With Me

    Chicken Fried

    Photograph

    Cruise

    Kids

    Island In The Sun

    Gives you Hell

  • Knocking At The Door

    11:11

    Leather Jacket

    Book Club

    As It Was

    Robbers

    It’s Not Living

    The A-Team

    Cool About It

    Stick Season

    Centuries

    Style

    Blank Space

    Saviour Complex

    Vampire Empire

    Riptide

    You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful

    Ho Hey

    Rolling In the Deep

    Better Now

    Galway Girl

    Teenage Dream

    Tennessee Whiskey

    Good Luck Babe!

    Thinking Out Loud

    I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

    Kilby Girl

    I Had Some Help

    Somebody That I Used to Know

    Please Please Please

    Espresso

    Deja Vu

    Bad Guy

    R U Mine?

    Stressed Out

    Tear In My Heart

    American Nights