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Benjamin (Ben) Mink (born January 22, 1951) is a Canadian songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, best known as a long-time collaborator with Canadian singer k.d. lang.〔 ==Early life and career== Born of Polish parents, Mink was raised in Toronto, Ontario. He got his start performing with the rock/country group Mary-Lou Horner, which became the house band at ("The Rockpile" ) bar and nightclub.〔Quill, Greg - ("Led Zeppelin's Toronto memories" ) - ''Toronto Star''〕 They opened for Led Zeppelin and Muddy Waters, along with being a backup band for Chuck Berry.〔("Chuck Berry - The Rock Pile -May 15, 1969" ) - ''NashTheSlash.com''〕 He plays several string instruments, notably the guitar, violin and the mandolin, and is an award-winning music producer. Mink is best known as a long-time collaborator with Canadian singer k.d. lang, whom he met at Expo '86 while doing a gig with CANO.〔("Lunching with Bonzai - k.d. and Ben Mink - Food For Thought" ) - ''Mix Magazine - Jan 1996''〕〔("Life Is a Highway: Canadian Pop Music in the '90s" ) - ''CBC Doc Zone''〕 Mink has performed on, along with co-writing and producing several of her albums, which often combine voice with string arrangements.〔("Ben Mink Biography" ) - ''Waves.com''〕 Mink subsequently performed as violinist, guitarist, and mandolinist with lang's band, the Reclines. A performance for the Grammy nominated album Ingenue, was recorded as part of the ''MTV Unplugged'' series at the Ed Sullivan Theater, New York City, December 16, 1992 (aired in 1993).〔("MTV Unplugged: k.d. lang Episode Summary" ) - ''TV.com''〕 Before that, Mink was a member of the bands Stringband, Murray McLauchlan's Silver Tractors, FM and The Blazing Zulus. Additionally, Mink was invited to play electric violin on the Rush song "Losing It" from the band's 1982 album ''Signals'' and contributed strings to the song "Faithless" from the 2007 album ''Snakes & Arrows''. He also co-wrote, produced and performed guitar on ''My Favourite Headache'' (2000), a solo project of Rush's lead singer Geddy Lee.〔("Roland Interviews Ben Mink" ) - ''Reverb Roland Canada''〕〔Sharken, Lisa - ("Rush RX for my Favorite Headache" ) - ''VintageGuitar.com''〕 Mink has also produced and/or performed on recordings by numerous other artists, a diverse group which includes the Barenaked Ladies, Anne Murray, Dan Hill, Mendelson Joe, Prairie Oyster, Raffi, Jane Siberry, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Valdy, Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLauchlan, Willie P. Bennett, Susan Aglukark,〔("Susan Aglukark" ) 〕 Methodman, Alison Krauss, Feist, Daniel Lanois, Sarah McLachlan, Roy Orbison, Elton John and Heart. Mink was also responsible for the movie soundtrack to ''Fifty Dead Men Walking''.〔Schaefer, Glen - ("Ben Mink is movie music king" ) - ''Victoria Times Colonist''〕 which has since received numerous awards and nominations including a 2010 Genie Award nomination for Best Achievement in Music – Original Score, and a 2009 Leo Award for Best Musical Score for a Feature Length Drama. The television soundtracks for ''(Terminal City. )'' and ''Alice''.,〔Brodsky, Katherine - ("The go-to music people" ) - ''Variety.com''〕 both garnered Leo Awards. ''Confessions of an Innocent Man'', a shocking, heart-wrenching story about British-Canadian engineer William Sampson, won a 2007 Gemini Award for Best Biography Documentary Program.〔("Press Releases: Confessions Of An Innocent Man" ) - ''PapernyFilms.com''〕〔("Ben Mink" ) - ''Core Music Agency Roster''〕 In 2011, the TV series ''Glee'' used Ben's composition "Constant Craving" in the seventh episode of the third season for its closing number, (performed by Chris Colfer, Idina Menzel and Naya Rivera). He co-produced ''Red Velvet Car'' for Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson, released in the fall of 2010 〔Ragogna, Mike - ("Red Velvet Car: A Conversation With Heart's Ann & Nancy Wilson, Plus Introducing Theo Shier" ) - ''Huffington Post''〕〔("Heart's Red Velvet Car, the First New Studio Album in Six Years From Ann & Nancy Wilson, Drives Straight Into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200" ) - ''PRNewswire.com''〕 and appeared onstage in the band's concert video ''Night At Sky Church''.〔("Legacy Recordings Releasing Heart's 'Night At Sky Church,' an Electrifying Full-Length Live Concert Film, Available Everywhere Tuesday, March 8, 2011" ) - ''PRNewswire.com''〕 Mink was back at the helm as producer of Heart's 2012-2013 album ''Fanatic'' which included the single "Walkin Good" featuring Sarah McLachlan.〔("Legacy Recordings Releasing Fanatic, The Hard-Rock Successor To 2010's Top 10 Debut Red Velvet Car, On Tuesday, October 2, 2012" ) - ''PRNewswire.com''〕 Mink co-produced and performed on Feist's Grammy nominated hit single "1-2-3-4", playing strings and guitars.〔("Music - Feist" )〕 Mink has lectured on such topics as “The Music Business vs. the Creative Process,” at the University of British Columbia, Western Washington University and Simon Fraser University. He has also worked with students as an associate of UBC’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (robotics) and is an associate member of the Institute for Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems. In 2006 Mink delivered the introductory speech for k.d. lang’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award induction at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He has also contributed to the Library and Archives Canada 〔("Ben Mink fonds" ) - ''Library and Archives Canada''〕 Mink is a member of the Black Sea Station, a North American klezmer supergroup. Their debut recording, ''Transylvania Avenue'', is produced by Mink, and was released on Rounder Records in the Fall of 2010 as a digital download.〔("The Black Sea Station" ) - ''The Black Sea Station Website''〕 He's also produced other klezmer musical acts in the past such as Finjan, The Klezmatics and Chava Alberstein.〔Boehm, Mike - ("A New Tap on Yiddish Tradition" ) - ''Los Angeles Times''〕〔("The Klezmatics & Chava Alberstein Biography" ) - ''LabelBleu.com''〕 Mink is one of only a few people to ever share a songwriting credit with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In 1997 Mink and k.d. lang were co-credited as songwriters on the Rolling Stones single "Anybody Seen My Baby?". Mink and Lang were given credit before the song was released because Jagger/Richards felt the chorus was very similar to "Constant Craving", written by lang and Mink in 1992. In 2014 The Knowledge Network's "Take Me Home" series presented a short biographical film on Ben Mink. Mink has one solo recording - the hard to find 1980 release, "Foreign Exchange", on Passport Records.〔("Ben Mink" ) - ''Canadian Encyclopedia.com''〕 Originally recorded by Daniel Lanois and produced by Allan Soberman, It has been re-mastered for January 2015 digital release. On June 19th, 2015, Mink appeared alongside Rush for their R40 tour at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto to perform "Losing It", from their Signals album, for the first time live. 〔http://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2015/06/19/4386/Rush-R40-Live-tour-Toronto-show-2-open-thread〕〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIn0ECi5IlA〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Mink」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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