Selena Gomez’s boyfriend – Benny Blanco has a brilliant career as a music producer, and has collaborated with more than one of Selena’s ex-boyfriends.
After many ups and downs in love, in December 2023, Selena Gomez officially confirmed her dating relationship with Benny Blanco.
She shared on PopFaction’s Instagram: “He is everything in my heart, the best thing that has ever happened in my life. He is better than anyone who has ever been with me.” On the same day, she posted a photo of her head resting on her boyfriend’s story (moment) on her personal Instagram.
Benny Blanco is the first boyfriend that Selena has publicly dated in more than 5 years. Previously, besides her noisy love affair with Justin Bieber, Selena was entangled in dating rumors with many famous artists but did not confirm them.
The last time Selena publicly dated was with The Weeknd in January 2017. But their love story only lasted less than a year.
According to People, Benny Blanco is an American musician, music producer, DJ and rapper. The male artist born in 1988 also collaborated with Interscope Records to establish two record labels, Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets.
Benny Blanco has been very famous in the music production industry since the late 2000s.
He has produced singles for a number of famous artists such as Katy Perry (California Gurls, Teenage Dream), Maroon 5 (Moves like Jagger, Payphone), Britney Spears (Circus), Kesha (Tik Tok)…
Benny Blanco won many major prestigious awards such as: Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013, Producer of the Year award at iHeartRadio in 2017… In addition, he has also won the Music Award 5 times. Doctor of the Year at BMI.
In particular, in the list of people who have collaborated with Benny, there are two people who are ex-boyfriends of Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber and The Weeknd.
In 2015, he collaborated with Justin Bieber on the song Love Yourself, was in charge of producing the song, and co-wrote the lyrics with Justin and Ed Sheeran. The two had the opportunity to reunite for the song Lonely in 2020. Benny also praised Justin for being creative and not stereotypical in music.
As for The Weeknd, Benny Blanco co-wrote and produced two songs, True Colors and Attention in 2016.
In addition, Benny also collaborated with BTS and rapper Snoop Doggs to release the song Bad Decisions in 2022.
Before falling in love with Selena Gomez, Benny also worked with his girlfriend. He is responsible for producing and singing the song I Can’t Get Enough with Selena Gomez, Tainy and J Balvin in 2019.
Benny and Selena secretly dated for about 6 months before officially making it public. The beauty is not afraid to share romantic photos, wrapped around her lover on social networks, and praises him as the most wonderful man.
Not only that, Selena also publicly protected Benny from rumors and malicious comments since he fell in love with her.
Selena frankly responded to a fan’s comment opposing the relationship between the two: “If you really care about me, then this is my happiness. I don’t allow your words to affect me.” my life”.
Before falling in love with Selena, Benny was quite secretive about his love life. He has only publicly dated one person, model and actress Elsie Hewitt. However, the two also broke up a long time ago.
After the shock when Selena Gomez announced her new love, many people began to support and bless the couple. After many events in love and life, fans hope that Selena will have a safe and happy destination with her current lover.