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Crazy Bengie FB
the latest influential artiste to come from the United Kingdom.
Born in Maida Vale, London in the United Kingdom, Crazy Bengie FB has a passion for a number of creative activities and especially for music
Crazy Bengie FB has possession of experiences in many varied fields, in many varied locations and many varied themes.
Crazy Bengie FB would play act as a child the musical characters he saw on the television and elsewhere he heard and saw around him. Crazy Bengie FB’s parents are of African origin, exiled in the 1960's due to African wars and dictatorships, and so he was exposed to a variety of musical styles, which included highlife, rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, classical as well as others.
Crazy Bengie FB has influences which are many and varied, from Mozart to Mott The Hoople, Jimi Hendrix to Jah Woosh, Alton Ellis to Average White Band, James Brown to JJ Cale, Earth Wind and Fire to Buju Banton, Bob Marley to The Beatles to mention just a few.
Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aswad, Big Youth, Chicago, Buju Banton, Jah Woosh, the Cult, Marvin Gaye, Roy Ayers, Landscape, Guns 'n' Roses, Bad Company, The Eagles, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh.
Crazy Bengie FB worked as a disc jockey, then known as Ben Kwesy, at prestigious nightclubs and bars in and around London including The Rock Garden, Dingwalls, and The Marquee during his teens and beyond.
He also promoted club nights at venues. At one time he promoted and played at a number of underground scene venues and has been an influence of and influenced by some artists around the world. Not racist in nature, amongst his friends and associate are a variety of artists from very different style bases.
Crazy Bengie FB's first performances or auditions, (if only in the strictly amateur), were when Crazy Bengie FB was a pre-school toddler. Crazy Bengie FB favourite songs include "She Loves You", the John Lennon and Paul McCartney song by the Beatles. As a toddler he used to play air guitar so often that his parents bought him a little red guitar.
Crazy Bengie FB would mime to the Beatles whenever they appeared on television or played on the radio or the record player in the family Blaupunkt stereogram.
In infant school Crazy Bengie FB enjoyed toy musical instruments during recreational playtime. Ben was always picked whenever the school was performing a major event
Whether it was a choir, a group or dramatic production, he was almost always picked to be included in the production.
During his attendance of junior school, (at about fourth and fifth grade US) Crazy Bengie FB and his friends put on lunch time and playtime shows, which would be enjoyed by staff, teachers and others children for the duration of the particular break.
Bengie moved into high a school at about sixth grade, and when Crazy Bengie FB reached eighth grade, he began to make contributions to a local radio station. At school, he was bullied by other black pupils for being "not black enough", and liking what they called "white music".
Encouraged by the then children’s' radio broadcasters Jean Davis, Terese Birch and Mike Rhodes, Bengie FB became involved in closed circuit
networks broadcasting entertaining staff, recovering patients and new patients in a couple of large local hospitals
Crazy Bengie FB actively participated in public performances at schools he attended. Later in his schooling, Bengie FB met with friends who after school and during vacations would play together in rock bands playing covers and original compositions and perform in concerts before their peers.
Crazy Bengie began to concentrate on playing the bass guitar in 1977 and formed, with his school friends Alan Daniels, Alistair Taylor, Mark Ferguson, David Pattman, Karyn Woodley, Janita Lewis, a jaz rock group called ‘Heavy Duty Beauty’. They rehearsed and developed songs in two rooms Bengie ‘s father, B B Boateng (who in the 1950's developed The Commonwealth Students' Children Society, a charity launched in 1960, to aid African students and their children in the United Kingdom), allocated to him and his friends for the purpose of working on music.
Later other members joined the group. They rehearsed, composed and arranged their own compositions
which they played at high school events and local community events.
Crazy Bengie FB began to play the music at the local youth community centres with his friends. Crazy Bengie FB and his friend inspired
others to take a closer interest in music and presentation to audiences, both live and recorded.
Crazy Bengie FB amassed a substantial number of tracks, numbering in excess of 3,795 tracks, which were stolen from him by Andrew Weatherall during the early nineties.
Bengie FB has been able to record a few tracks, including "Angry Yeah Yeah", "JAH Wonderful" and "Too Loud ".
Crazy Bengie FB is developing more tracks, which are just as exciting as the last few.
Bengie FB has been creating music since he was at least thirteen years old.
Bengie FB is currently developing the recording of songs he composed during his late teens
and early twenties, with titles such as "Streets Are Cold", "I Need You", "Next To Me" and "I'm Tired", which Bengie composed
between late 2001 and early 2002.
The whole world currently rocks to the unique sounds of Crazy Bengie FB. Crazy Bengie FB is available and you may make contact with him by email or telephone.
BengieFB@Glotomma.com UK 07930 902701 int’l+44 7930 902701