Benjamin Rice is a Grammy-winning Record Producer, Songwriter, Vocal Producer, Mix Engineer, and Musician.
He started his career at Record Plant Studios in Hollywood, CA in 2012 as an assistant engineer and quickly turned the relationships he cultivated there into a career with Top 40 credits including artists like Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Julia Michaels, Britney Spears, Becky G, Nick Jonas, John Legend, and more.
In 2017 Lady Gaga brought Benjamin in to work on her film A Star Is Born, where he engineered and vocal produced the entire soundtrack, as well as co-producing several of the songs and serving as one of the soundtrack’s overall Album Producers.
In 2019, Benjamin continued working with Lady Gaga on her album Chromatica, where he served once again as her engineer, vocal producer and mixer for the entire album, landing another Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Production, and a second Billboard #1 song with the album’s single, ‘Rain On Me’, featuring Ariana Grande.
His most recent collaboration with Lady Gaga was co-producing and co-mixing ‘Hold My Hand’, from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, where he received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. ‘Hold My Hand’ was also Oscar-nominated for Best Original Song.
Benjamin’s most recent work was teaming up with Multi-Platinum/Grammy-Nominated Artist/Songwriter, Julia Michaels, where he co-wrote, co-produced, vocal produced, engineered and co-mixed all the original songs for Disney’s 100th-anniversary feature animation film, Wish, which was released Nov 22, 2023. Benjamin was also a featured musician and vocalist, contributing drums, guitars, keys, programming, and background vocals for the film.
Benjamin is a veteran of the U.S. Army and joined in 2008. It was his dream to be in the Army Special Forces, Green Berets. His Army career first started at Ft. Benning, GA, where he successfully completed both Infantry and Airborne training, becoming an Infantry Airborne Paratrooper. Transferring immediately to Ft. Bragg, NC to begin the Special Forces Selection process, Benjamin was successful in being selected into the Special Forces Green Beret program where he began training as an 18D, Special Forces Medic. In 2010, Benjamin suffered a career ending injury and received an honorable medical discharge.
In the fall of 2010, following his medical discharge, Benjamin decided to pursue a Recording Arts degree at Full Sail and later graduated as Valedictorian in 2012.
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16 июн 2024
