Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five (1994-2000) is an American group centered around three instruments, the piano, the low one and the battery.

History of the group

It is in 1994, in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, that the trio Ben Folds, Robert Sledge, Darren Jessee decides to create Ben Folds Five . The formation piano-low-battery will live six years, before being dissolved in 2000, after a representation with the Late show with David Letterman, on July 19th, 2000.

Their first success arrives quickly, with the title " Underground" extracted from their first album which bears their name sobrement. However, it will be necessary to await their second album, " Whatever and Ever Amen", in 1997, to see them gaining their greater success with the ballade " Brick".

After the dissolution of the group, Ben Folds begins a career solo which will succeed. Robert Sledge, as for him, becomes singer and bass player in the group International Orange (dissolved in 2005), and Darren Jessee belongs to the group Hotel Lights.

Composition of the group

Ben Folds: song, piano, composition.
Robert Sledge: low.
Darren Jessee : battery, Co-writing.

Discography

1995 : Ben Folds Five.
1997: Whatever and Ever Amen.
1998: Naked Baby Photographs (compilation) .
1999: The Unauthorized Biography off Reinhold Messner.

Videotex

1999 : Live At Sessions At West 54th.

External bond

http://www.benfoldsfive.com (English official site.)

Random links: