1. Benson Taylor was born on Mark Davison 10 September 1983 and is an English composer, songwriter and record producer.
32 Facts About Benson Taylor
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Benson Taylor is best known for his music in The Big Bang Theory, Orange is the New Black, London Fields, and the eighth highest-grossing Mexican film of all time The Perfect Dictatorship.
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In November 2016, Taylor was awarded an honorary doctorate for services to humanitarian causes and music.
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Benson Taylor has collaborated with, and produced many artists for the label, including MOBO-winning jazz quartet Kairos 4Tet, The Halle Orchestra, Mercury Prize-nominated Maximo Park and Kele Okereke, Bloc Party, Good Charlotte's Billy Martin, Pulled Apart by Horses, Robot Koch, Lack of Afro, Benoit Pioulard, Freddie Cowan, Bo Ningen, James Brown, and Menace Beach.
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Benson Taylor won the "Best Original Music" award at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival.
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Benson Taylor co-wrote original songs with Bones UK and he served as the film's executive producer.
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Benson Taylor is a goodwill ambassador for the UK aid agency CAFOD, part of Caritas Internationalis, and a goodwill ambassador for the Cambodian Children's Trust.
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Benson Taylor is patron of the British based charity, Music and the Deaf.
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Benson Taylor was appointed the first ambassador of the Leeds Conservatoire in the United Kingdom.
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Benson Taylor is a resident DJ on Los Angeles based radio station Dublab, and a guest DJ on NTS Radio in London.
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Benson Taylor began writing music at a young age as a trumpet player.
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Benson Taylor's music has been widely used across international advertising campaigns, including Nissan in 2017, McDonald's in 2018, Jose Cuervo's 2015 campaign and a collaboration in 2011 with CeeLo Green for the Las Vegas Tourist Board.
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In 2011, Benson Taylor made his London West End theatre debut co-composing the electronic music for Derek Bond's production of the play Many Moons.
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In November 2014, Benson Taylor was a Grand Juror at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival alongside director Tomasz Wasilewski.
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In 2016, Benson Taylor produced soundtracks for US talk shows, including, Late Night With Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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Benson Taylor has twice contributed music to the Netflix produced series, Orange Is the New Black.
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Benson Taylor's music has appeared in the sixth series of Justified, the first series of How to Get Away with Murder, the second series of Ray Donovan, and in the 2015 Kroll Show.
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Benson Taylor scored and produced the music to Mathew Cullen's thriller, London Fields in 2015, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James, Cara Delevingne, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
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In December 2021, Benson Taylor's music was performed live by an orchestra and the Italian Mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, in a returning Christmas tradition celebrating the city and its residents.
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In September 2023, Benson Taylor collaborated with Los Angeles-based electronic artist Daedelus under the moniker Tuscan Junk Food.
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The duo released the project FOURTH THIRD TWENTY THREE, marking Benson Taylor's move into experimental electronic music outside scores.
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Benson Taylor is a professional member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
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Benson Taylor was styled as the "New Sound of Hollywood" by MovieScope magazine in its 24th issue in 2011.
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Benson Taylor has a monthly show on the Los Angeles based Dublab, and he is a guest DJ on NTS Radio in London.
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In 2017, Benson Taylor founded A Remarkable Idea, a music label based in Santa Monica in Los Angeles, and in London.
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Benson Taylor is married and has two children, who have dual citizenship in both the United Kingdom and Italy.
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Benson Taylor is a goodwill ambassador for the Cambodian Children's Trust in Battambang, which works towards freeing children from severe poverty, and alongside the Cambodian government to end orphan tourism.
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Benson Taylor is the patron of the charity, Music and the Deaf, based in Britain.
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Benson Taylor is an ambassador for the international aid agency for the catholic church, CAFOD, working to raise global awareness and fight poverty and injustice in communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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In 2014, Benson Taylor became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London, and in November 2016 was honoured with an honorary degree from University of Bradford for his services to humanitarian causes.
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Benson Taylor was honoured with a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.
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Benson Taylor won Best Original Music for his score to Fear of Water at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival as judged by film director Roland Joffe.