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BENSON TAYLOR IS AN BRITISH COMPOSER & RECORD PRODUCER, WORKING BETWEEN HIS STUDIOS IN TUSCANY, THE YORKSHIRE DALES, & LOS ANGELES, WHERE HIS ORCHESTRAL & EXPERIMENTAL SYNTHESIS BACKGROUNDS UNITE.
DAVID BOWIE’S PUBLISHING COMPANY SIGNED BENSON IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES AND HE HAS SINCE CARVED OUT AN INCREDIBLE CAREER WRITING & PRODUCING MUSIC. HE IS AN ALUMNUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES.
BENSON’S MUSIC IS HEARD IN NETFLIX’S ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, SUITS, GREY’S ANATOMY, RAY DONOVAN, THE BIG BANG THEORY, AND 13 REASONS WHY. HE RECENTLY SCORED PAUL LEYDEN’S ‘CHICK FIGHT’, AN AMAZON ORIGINAL STARRING MALIN AKERMAN, BELLA THORNE & ALEC BALDWIN. IN ADDITION TO THE SCORE, HE ALSO CO-WROTE & PRODUCED ORIGINAL SONGS FOR THE FILM WITH GRAMMY NOMINATED, BONES UK.
IN 2018 HE WROTE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE FILM ADAPTATION OF THE NOTABLE MARTIN AMIS THRILLER, LONDON FIELDS. DIRECTED BY MATHEW CULLEN & STARRING BILLY BOB THORNTON, AMBER HEARD, JIM STURGESS, CARA DELEVINGNE, AND JOHNNY DEPP.
BENSON ESTABLISHED LUCO MUSIC GROUP IN 2020, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WARNER MUSIC GROUP & A REMARKABLE IDEA, A SUB LABEL WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP IN 2017.
HE HAS CO-WRITTEN WITH AND PRODUCED ARTISTS INCLUDING BLOC PARTY, MAXÏMO PARK, BAT FOR LASHES, THE HALLÉ ORCHESTRA, THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS, DAEDELUS, BO NINGEN, ALEX MAAS (THE BLACK ANGELS), PULLED APART BY HORSES, THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, TEMPLES’ JAMES BAGSHAW, LOWER DENS, MOBO WINNING KAIROS 4TET, MENACE BEACH, ROBOT KOCH, THE KINGDOM CHOIR, & GRAMMY AWARD WINNING GOOD CHARLOTTE.
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BENSON WON ‘BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC’ FOR HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM SCORE, FEAR OF WATER, AT THE MONACO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN 2014.
BENSON WAS AWARDED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR HIS SERVICES TO MUSIC & HUMANITARIAN CAUSES IN 2016.