Ben Folds

Ben Folds is a multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, a holiday album, and numerous collaborative records.

He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras. As a producer, Ben has produced artists such as Sara Bareilles, Amanda Palmer, Kesha!, and William Shatner, among others.

On May 11, 2017, he was named the first Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a post which he resigned from in early 2025.

A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben also creates new music for film, tv and theatre, including original songs for an ongoing series of animated Peanuts specials on Apple TV, for which he was nominated for an MMA Award.

In 2022, he launched a music education charitable initiative in his native state of North Carolina, which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically disadvantaged households. For the past 15 years he has also been an outspoken advocate for arts funding, music education and music therapy in the US as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.