Ben Sollee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Sollee
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Nov 28, 1983(1983-11-28)
Age	41
Birthplace	Lexington
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Scorpio

Ben Sollee Biography

Ben Sollee is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 28, 1983 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. American musician, singer, and composer who was praised for his unique style and music that reflected gender.

His hit song How to See the Sun Rise was featured on an episode on Showtime’s Weeds which starred His song How to See the Sun Rise was used for an episode of Showtime’s Weeds starring Mary-Louise Parker…

At the age of 17, Sollee became a member of the house band, known as the “Folk Boy Orchestra,” on the syndicated weekly radio show, WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, hosted by Michael Johnathon. Through this participation, Sollee was exposed to a wide range of professional musicians and performers who appeared as featured guests on the show. He played regularly as the house cellist until the summer of 2006 – after more than 200 shows. Sollee was also a guest performer on the WoodSongs program while still in high school, on October 29,

2001. He eventually performed as a guest on several occasions: As a solo artist on September 10, 2007; as a member of the Sparrow Quartet on May 19, 2008; with colleague Daniel Martin Moore on January 11, 2010; and again as a solo artist on April 29, 2013.

Sollee graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts at Lafayette High School in 2002. He was admitted to the University of Louisville’s School of Music on a full-tuition scholarship to study cello with Paul York. This began a four-year saga that hugely expanded Sollee’s technical mastery of his instrument, while being marked by a constant struggle with his teacher over their different musical interests and objectives. In this context, Sollee collided with the firmly established tradition of the cello as a fundamentally, if not exclusively, classical instrument. He now found that his participation in two disparate worlds of music had become a struggle within himself as well as a source of frustration with his formal training. In resisting the conventional orthodoxy, Sollee disputed the classical tradition as the way to play the cello, insisting that was just one way to play it.

The music that his parents introduced him to was from numerous artists like His parents introduced him to the music of many artists, including Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding., Billie Holiday, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding.

Ben Sollee Net Worth

Ben Sollee is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Sollee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began playing the cello during the elementary school years and was greatly in the influence of a wide variety of music, such as bluegrass, classical folk, jazz and R&B All of these were incorporated in his later works.

His political involvement covered a variety of social issues, from environmental degradation to poverty and mountaintop removal, particularly in coal mining.

Ben Sollee (born November 28, 1983) is an American cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his political activism. His music incorporates banjo, guitar, and mandolin along with percussion and unusual cello techniques. His songs exhibit a mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz, and R&B elements. Sollee has also composed longer instrumental pieces for dance ensembles and for film.

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Sollee also had performed in the 2008 Festival, as a member of the Sparrow Quartet, and so was a witness to the Kanye West episode. The next day Sollee wrote a song about it titled “Dear Kanye,” framed as an “open letter” to West, which he recorded on his laptop. It was done on a whim, he later stated, for circulation among his management team. “For better or worse, they passed it along to blogs and radio” he said, and the result was “wildfire” and unexpected and unwanted attention on the national level. The song, circulated widely, acknowledged West as a major and influential artist in the rap genre and chided him for his infantile and unbecoming behavior and commercialism. Not comfortable with the resulting notoriety, Sollee withdrew the song after one local performance. He posted a statement on his website explaining his actions and reaffirming his respect for “underground Hip-Hop, [whose] genuine nature can be gritty, graceful, jaded, or joyful.” There is no indication that West ever took notice of, or responded to, Sollee’s song.

Facts & Trivia

Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ben Sollee celebrates birthday on November 28 of every year.

Sollee was featured on the PBS series On Canvas, broadcast by Philadelphia station WHYY on October 8, 2008, which was recorded before a performance at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. On December 20, 2008, Public Radio International’s “The World” program, co-produced by the BBC World Service and WBGH Boston, declared Learning to Bend one of the nine best “Global Hits” of

2008. The top nine contained only three artists from the U.S.

What genre is Ben Sollee?

Folk

Where is Ben Sollee from?

Ben Sollee
Origin| Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Genres| Bluegrass Folk Jazz R&B Contemporary Classical
Occupation(s)| Musician, singer, songwriter, composer
Instruments| Cello