MP3 Mike Benjamin - Backyard
Soulful/Blusey Americana Singer Songwriter
11 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Americana, BLUES: Blues Vocals
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Born in Cambridge, Mike started his musical career as a young teenager playing in the streets of Harvard Square and in the subways of Boston.
Soon he found himself playing in bars and clubs and performing extensively during the summer months on Martha''s Vineyard.
After attending Hampshire College, Mike moved to New York and quickly became a busy studio singer and player, doing record dates, song demos and recording scores of national jingles from Coke to Clorox to Bud and played extensively in The New York City club sceen.
Ten years in New York city and ready for a change, Mike moved himself and family to Martha''s Vineyard Massachusetts and joined the 1996 Boston Music Award winning Band, "Entrain." While touring Nationaly with Entrain, Mike worked on two of the bands CD''s.
In 2000, Mike left the band and began working with his own group "The Mike Benjamin Band" and released a 14 song disk "Never Too Late". Songs from this cd are in regular rotation on several radio staions including wmvy, wbos, wcib, wumb and more. Over the years mike has played with such greats as Bo Diddly, James Taylor, The Dave Letterman Band, The Blues Brothers, Carly Simon, Sue Tadeschi and many others.
During his years in New York he recorded with many artists including Mark Cohn, Delbert Mclinton, Patty Labell, Will Lee, Vicky Sue Robinson, Paul Shaffer.