Burnley, Benjamin Jackson

Benjamin Burnley was born on March 10, 1978 in Atlantic City ( New Jersey ).

Learning to play the guitar is his companion album by Nirvana 's band “ Nevermind ”. Before the formation of Breaking Benjamin, the musician earned money by singing solo in bars. The case when he broke the microphone on the floor on the stage, imitating Kurt Cobain, and gave the name to the future team ^[1] .

Benjamin Burnley has an older brother, Thomas. His family owns a small textile company.

Since Jeremy Hammell, the future drummer of Breaking Benjamin, Ben has been familiar since high school. Together with him, he is the founder of the group.

Phobias

Burnley has a large number of different phobias . The album " Phobia " is proof of this. He is afraid to fly airplanes. This explains the fact why the group performs only within the United States and Canada . Also, the leader of Breaking Benjamin is afraid to get sick, drive a car and so on. He explains his phobias by the fact that he wants to "postpone his death as much as possible." But nevertheless, when the new composition of the group appeared, Ben first went on a tour with the group around the world, but by water.

Video Games

Ben is an avid gamer . In an interview, he said that he has a spare Xbox , if suddenly another fails. Ben is a fan of the Hitman video game series . He also wrote the song “Blow me away” for the game Halo 2 , which is used as the official soundtrack and sounds in the game itself. Ben's three favorite games: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion , Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas . In an interview, Burnley says that he likes to be in another world in which there are no rules or boundaries, where you can do whatever you want. At one of the forums, the musician said that his nickname in the game world is “killemloud”.