Benson Taylor was born on Mark Davison 10 September 1983 and is an English composer, music producer, and humanitarian.
35 Facts About Benson Taylor
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Benson Taylor has collaborated and produced 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, 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 is an 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 charity, Music and the Deaf.
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Benson Taylor was appointed the first ambassador of the Leeds Conservatoire, and in November 2021, he was installed as the first honorary Composer in Residence at the University of Huddersfield, both in the United Kingdom.
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Benson Taylor began writing music at a young age, whilst working as a radio producer.
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Benson Taylor later opened a studio in England, writing scores for American television, including Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock, 90210, and The Big Bang Theory, as well as producing music for the Super Bowl between 2010 and 2014.
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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 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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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 has collaborated with artists for A Remarkable Idea including The Halle orchestra, Maximo Park and Kele Okereke of Bloc Party, Pulled Apart by Horses, Robot Koch, Lack of Afro, Kairos 4Tet, Bo Ningen, Good Charlotte's Billy Martin, and ambient artists such as Benoit Pioulard Benson Taylor previously ran his label, Insidious Music, which is defunct after being sold.
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In March 2014, through his publishing company, Benson Taylor licensed a large catalogue of musical works in partnership with Peter Gabriel's CueSongs, and a smaller subsidiary of the catalogue to the Japanese national broadcaster, Nippon Hoso Kyokai.
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Benson Taylor said in an interview with WQXR-FM that it was his intention for the catalogue to grow, and to further develop collaborations with artists around the world, specifically in the middle and far east.
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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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Alongside Patrick Stewart, Lena Headey and Jodie Whittaker, in 2017, Benson Taylor took part in a photography exhibition in Huddersfield raising awareness around the downgrading of services at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
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Benson Taylor is a known supporter of the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres, and the United Nations Refugee Agency, producing music to support their awareness campaigns.
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Benson Taylor has worked alongside the World Food Programme for several years promoting zero hunger in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Cambodia, and on the African continent.
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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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In November 2021, Benson Taylor was installed as the first Composer in Residence at the University of Huddersfield.
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In November 2021, Benson Taylor was installed as the first Composer in Residence at the University of Huddersfield.
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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.