For forty years this legend of jazz, whose voice and mastery of the guitar have not diminished one iota in all that time, will be enjoying a homecoming of sorts at the Festival. His Grammy award-winning album, Breezin, was the first jazz recording to reach Number 1 on the pop charts.

In 1976 Benson won three Grammy awards and he has continued to do so by winning a Grammy in 2006 for his recording with great jazz singer, Al Jarreau, the first time the two had been in a recording studio together. During the past ten years, George Benson also has displayed a particular love for Latin music. His well-received 1998 album is called "Poquito Spanish - Poquito Funk" and in it he does his own composition, also an award-winning song, El Barrio. Several of the other members on the bill at the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival 2007 have appeared or recorded with Benson at some point during his long career which will make this seem like Old Home Week for this great jazz star.