Biography
Composer / Orchestrator / Musician, Benoît Grey is originally from Canada. An accomplished studio and touring Bassist, he was asked by the famed Ray Charles to join his band, with whom he toured throughout the world and recorded for many years. Benoît has composed, orchestrated and performed on TV, Film, Recordings, Video Games, and Children's Media.
His bass playing has been featured on Films and TV shows such as "Orleans", and “Beauty Shop” and "The Tonight Show". Click here to see Benoît performing with Ray Charles and the Tonight Show Band.
His orchestrations have been part of hit movies such as "The Day After Tomorrow" "Failure to Launch" and "Scary Movie 2" as well as award-winning television programs such as "The Academy Awards" and Showtime’s “Reefer Madness” for which he orchestrated the Emmy-winning song.
He has written music for world-famous film/TV directors and writers such as Keenan Ivory Wayans, Barry Levinson, and Darren Star. He also has scored the award-winning cult-film "Jimmy and Judy". He has contributed music to such hit TV shows as "Everybody Hates Chris", "The Surreal Life", and "Grosse Pointe".
His music was recently nominated for an award in the category of "Best Edutainment/Children's Audio" by the Game Audio Network Guild. He has also recently contributed music to upcoming "A-list" Video-Game titles such as "Jaws Unleashed" (based on the classic blockbuster film) and "24" (based on the hit TV Show of the same name.) He currently makes his home in Southern California.