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VJ Ben: the name the video shows and the gold register leaves out

Published October 20, 2026

VJ Ben is an artist of the bouyon and shatta scene of Guadeloupe whose name is attached to one of the biggest records of bouyon gwada: “Je l'ai vu”, the official video by HollyG and Arendi, released on 22 October 2021, whose title carries his name in third position. On 10 July 2025, SNEP recorded the gold single certification of that track in France. Yet the official register names only Holly G and Arendi: VJ Ben does not appear in it. Between the video that bills him, the Spotify catalogue that documents him single by single from 2019 to 2026, and the register that omits him, this profile rebuilds the exact place of VJ Ben, document by document, and states clearly what the public record does not give: no full name, no biography, no published home commune.

Who VJ Ben is: a video name, a catalogue, no biography

Start with what is established. VJ Ben is an artist and DJ active in the bouyon and shatta of the French Antilles. His Spotify artist page, opened for this profile, sits in a world its metadata sums up in three tags: shatta, zouk and kompa, according to the Music Metrics Vault reading. His top listener cities, in the same reading, draw his geography without any biography having to tell it: Paris first, then Les Abymes in Guadeloupe, Fort-de-France in Martinique, Le Lamentin and Lyon. It is the classic map of an Antillean artist carried by the diaspora, and it is the only map the sources allow us to draw.

No source consulted for this profile gives his full name, his date of birth or his home commune, so none of those elements is printed here. As far as this research found, there is no published interview, no publisher biography and no press article devoted to VJ Ben alone. What the record gives is of another kind: a catalogue. His Spotify page lists singles from 2019, a major collaboration in 2021, regular releases after that, and still a single in 2026. For an artist of this scene, where many careers live on video and in parties before they live on record, that continuous catalogue is his strongest identity document.

His very name states his double trade. The prefix VJ, like DJ, points to the decks and to hosting parties, and NRJ Antilles presents him exactly that way: in September 2026, the station announced that VJ Ben had set its decks on fire with an exclusive set on NRJ Beach Party, its series devoted to the best DJs of the Antilles. The same month, the station carried his track “OWA'Y”, with Niko. Recording artist and decks man: both faces are documented, and this profile holds them together, because that is exactly the profile of the carriers of bouyon gwada, who circulate the sound between the islands and the diaspora.

“Je l'ai vu”: the major record, its full credits, its 10 million views

The record that installed VJ Ben before the wide public was released on 22 October 2021. Qobuz lists it as “Je l'ai vu (Bouyon Kings Mixtape)”, released by Vadore Concept Groupe. The official video is titled, in full: HOLLY G x ARENDI x VJ BEN - JE L'AI VU. Its published credits give the whole team: writers HollyG and Arendi, composer Dj Flip tha boss, recording at Voodoo Studio, camera Mighty Production, video editing Voodoo Production, production bringing together Vadore Concept, Voodoo studio, The best prod and Dj Raptor Martinique, filming at Galets Beach, at the Domaine de la petite sucrerie. The video hashtags state the scene: Bouyon, Guadeloupe, VadoreConcept, VoodooStudio.

The place of VJ Ben in this record has to be described precisely, because the documents do not all say the same thing. The video title associates him with the track at the same visual level as HollyG and Arendi. The reference biography of HollyG, published by Qobuz and credited to Music Story, writes that the group collaborated with Arendi and VJ Ben on “Je l'ai vu”, and that the track passed 10 million views on YouTube. On the other hand, the writer fields of the video credits name HollyG and Arendi, and the composer is Dj Flip tha boss: VJ Ben appears neither as writer nor as composer in the written credits of the video. His presence is that of an artist associated with the track and its image, which the next section shows from another angle, that of the official register.

The context of the track matters for understanding its reach. HollyG, the family trio from Basse-Terre made up of Holly and her nieces 6 Tresses and Cheveux Rouge, arrived carried by “Bandit” and its millions of views. “Je l'ai vu” widened that audience: over 10 million views according to the group biography, a rare counter for a bouyon track sung from Guadeloupe. VJ Ben, whose name stands in the video title, was therefore seen, literally, by that audience. Our HollyG page tells the path of the trio, and our Arendi page that of the co-performer.

Gold without his name: what the SNEP register says, and what it does not

On 10 July 2025, SNEP, the body that certifies singles in France, recorded the gold single certification of “Je l'ai vu”. The official entry, consulted for this profile, is short and leaves no room for doubt: title JE L'AI VU, artists HOLLY G & ARENDI, label Vadore Concept Groupe, distributor Believe, Gold, release date 22/10/2021, certification date 10/07/2025, time to certification 3 years 9 months. A gold single in France represents 15 million stream equivalents since 2018. The 2021 track therefore kept being played, year after year, until it crossed the official threshold almost four years after its release.

The name of VJ Ben does not appear in that entry. That is neither a scandal nor an error by this profile: it is the mechanics of registers, which keep the performers declared by the label when the track was filed. But it is a fact rival profiles do not tell, because it requires reading the register instead of copying the video title. The documented truth is double: the official video associates VJ Ben with the track in its very title, and the certification register does not name him. This profile publishes both, because the history of credit is at the heart of what this site documents about bouyon: who is named, who is paid in visibility, and who disappears from the paperwork.

The discographic sequel of that success also deserves a note, on the page of VJ Ben himself. Spotify lists under his name a “Je l'ai vu (Charles V Remix)”, released as a single in 2023. The gold track therefore kept living, including in the catalogue of the artist the register did not keep. Between the 2021 video, the 2023 remix and the 2025 gold, “Je l'ai vu” draws a career in shadow: VJ Ben is present at every public step of the track, except in the artist box of its certification.

The catalogue under his own name: from “Ti KoKa” in 2019 to “No Love” in 2026

Read only as a collaborator name, VJ Ben would be misread. His Spotify artist page, opened for this profile, lists a catalogue under his own name running over seven years. The popular singles of the page lead the way: “Ti KoKa” in 2019, “Yinki ban mwen” and “One Dance” in 2020, “Owa'y” and “Purple Mood #3” in 2021, “Bla bla bla” and “Médicament” in 2022, then “Mercedes” in 2025 and “No Love” in 2026. The page also lists two long formats associated with his name: “Trentenaire mixtape” in 2021 and “Shatta vs Bouyon Connexion” in 2023. Those tracks, checked one by one on the artist page, form the recording list in the schema of this page.

Two of those tracks are confirmed by other sources, which anchors them beyond the platform alone. “Owa'y”, the 2021 single, is the track NRJ Antilles carried in September 2026 as “VJ BEN feat NIKO - OWA'Y”, with its video: the same record, carried five years later by the leading music station of the French Antilles, a sign of a lifespan party records do not always have. “No Love”, the 2026 single, also appears in the tracklist of the Digga D mix Sewo Jam 2026, as Dega Youth x VJ Ben: the name of VJ Ben circulates there in the bouyon selections of the moment, alongside the Dominican and Guadeloupe voices of the season.

The Spotify page counted, at the moment it was opened for this profile, about 6,300 monthly listeners, and the Music Metrics Vault reading, which presents itself as possibly outdated, counted 7,083 with 2,969 followers. Those figures are published here as dated snapshots, not as permanent truths: they describe an artist established at the scale of his scene, with a loyal audience between the Antilles and Paris, and a catalogue that is still coming out. To hear this sound as a whole, our bouyon playlist mixes bouyon gwada, shatta and new releases from the islands.

The man in other people's videos: Voodoo Studio, Vadore Concept and the image scene

A third trace completes the portrait: VJ Ben appears in the videos of his peers. The official video of “Shatta ay”, by Arendi and Magma QLM, composed by Trapking Beats and recorded at Voodoo Studio, publishes in its description an appearance credit, Starring, where the name of Vj Ben stands at the head of the list, alongside Jicypie, Wiwi, Skaytah and other faces of the scene. That is not a music credit: it is an image credit. In a scene where videos are the first medium, shot between the studios and the beaches of Guadeloupe, appearing in the credits of other people's tracks is a form of public presence in its own right.

That thread of appearances draws the exact circle of VJ Ben: Voodoo Studio, where “Je l'ai vu” and “Shatta ay” were both recorded; Vadore Concept, the structure that produced the gold track and whose successor Vadore Concept Groupe released it; the same image teams, Mighty Production and Voodoo Production, returning from video to video. VJ Ben is not a name that fell into that circle by a chance feature: he is one of its recurring faces, to the point that the “Je l'ai vu” video put his name in its title. That is also what makes his absence from the SNEP register so readable: the scene knows him, the paperwork does not keep him.

There remains the question of the name itself. VJ, in the vocabulary of Antillean parties, names the person who hosts, speaks on the microphone and chains the tracks, on the border between DJ and master of ceremonies. The exclusive set given to NRJ Antilles in 2026 confirms that VJ Ben still works that trade, alongside his singles. This profile does not decide what the sources do not decide: it records an artist who sings on his own tracks, appears in the videos of his circle, and holds the decks of a national station. Three trades, one name, and a public file that only connects them if it is read in full, as here.

What this profile knows, and what it does not

Let the file be summed up, because for an artist with no published biography, clarity beats emphasis. Established by the sources: VJ Ben is associated, in the very title of the official video, with “Je l'ai vu” by HollyG and Arendi, released on 22 October 2021 on Vadore Concept Groupe, a track certified gold single by SNEP on 10 July 2025 under the names of Holly G and Arendi only. Established as well: a Spotify catalogue under his own name from 2019 to 2026, including “Owa'y” with Niko, carried by NRJ Antilles in 2026, and “No Love” in 2026; an appearance credit in the “Shatta ay” video; a DJ set on NRJ Antilles the same year.

Not established, and therefore not printed: his full name, his date and place of birth, his commune, the detail of his training, and any statement by the artist himself, no interview having been found during this research. No social account is linked here, for lack of a URL verified by direct opening; only his Spotify artist page, opened and verified for this profile, appears in the schema links. If the artist or his circle publish those elements, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site.

The place of VJ Ben in the history of bouyon gwada finally fits in one sentence the documents are enough to carry: he is the third name on the biggest video of the Vadore Concept and Voodoo Studio wave, which became a gold single, and the official register kept the other two. Between those two facts stand his catalogue, his appearances and his sets, that is a whole career of the image and party scene of Guadeloupe bouyon. This site exists so that such names do not depend on a single box in a register to exist in the history of the genre.

Frequently asked questions

Is VJ Ben credited on the gold single “Je l'ai vu”?

It depends on the document. The official video is titled HOLLY G x ARENDI x VJ BEN, and the HollyG biography published by Qobuz presents the track as a collaboration with Arendi and VJ Ben. On the other hand, the official SNEP register, which certified the track gold single on 10 July 2025, names only HOLLY G & ARENDI, on Vadore Concept Groupe and Believe. VJ Ben appears neither in the certification entry, nor among the writers in the video credits, which name HollyG and Arendi, with Dj Flip tha boss as composer.

What are the tracks under the name of VJ Ben?

His Spotify artist page, opened for this profile, lists among others “Ti KoKa” (2019), “Yinki ban mwen” and “One Dance” (2020), “Owa'y”, “Purple Mood #3” and “Money Addict” (2021), “Bla bla bla” and “Médicament” (2022), “Mercedes” (2025) and “No Love” (2026), as well as the long formats “Trentenaire mixtape” (2021) and “Shatta vs Bouyon Connexion” (2023), and a “Je l'ai vu (Charles V Remix)” in 2023.

Is VJ Ben a singer or a DJ?

Both, according to the sources. He has released singles under his own name since 2019, he is credited among the people appearing in the “Shatta ay” video by Arendi and Magma QLM, and NRJ Antilles presented him in September 2026 as a DJ: the station aired his exclusive set on NRJ Beach Party, its series devoted to Antilles DJs, and carried his track “OWA'Y” with Niko the same month.

Where does VJ Ben come from?

No source consulted publishes his home commune or his biography. What the data show is his listening geography: according to Music Metrics Vault, his top listener cities are Paris, Les Abymes in Guadeloupe, Fort-de-France in Martinique, Le Lamentin and Lyon, the typical map of a French Antilles artist carried by the diaspora. This profile does not turn that listening map into a birthplace.

What is the link between VJ Ben, Vadore Concept and Voodoo Studio?

“Je l'ai vu”, the track his name is associated with, was recorded at Voodoo Studio and produced among others by Vadore Concept, whose successor Vadore Concept Groupe released the single through Believe. The “Shatta ay” video, recorded in the same studio, credits him among the people appearing in it. VJ Ben is a recurring face of that Guadeloupe production circle of bouyon and shatta.

Where can I hear VJ Ben?

On his Spotify artist page, which gathers his singles from 2019 to 2026, and in our bouyon playlist, which mixes bouyon gwada, shatta and new releases from the French Antilles followed by Bouyon Shattaz. Start with “Je l'ai vu” with HollyG and Arendi, then “Owa'y” and “No Love”.

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