Ben Spivak

Ben Spivak was born in Toronto, Canada, on January 4, 1983. He began playing piano at age four and guitar at age nine. As a junior high student, he picked up the cello and upright bass. He studied at Humber College in Toronto,^[1] where he earned a B.A in Jazz Performance with a major in Bass. While at Humber, Ben and his friends Rory Sills and Ben Weigensberg formed the band Cavern,^[2] where they wrote original music, recorded a 3-song EP, and toured around Ontario. Additionally at Humber, Spivak began to get hired for gigs, and began to collaborate with other artists. He gigged with Liam Titcomb, Mudmen,^[3] and country artist Johnny Reid.

He toured for two years with the Canadian hip hop artist K-Os, which opened for the 2007 Gym Class Heroes tour titled "Daryl Hall for President."^[4] The group performed on the David Letterman Show on February 20, 2007.^[5] The band was a part of the lineup for Warped Tour in 2007.^[6] In 2008, the band was a part of the lineup for the 2008 Good Vibrations music festival in Australia.^[7]

Ben Spivak was one half of the band Ben and Aubrey, with Aubrey Stork, in 1999, they released a CD called Lost In Paradise.

In 2009, Spivak became a founding member of the Julian Taylor Band.^[8] The band recorded live covers in their album titled Hey Hey Two Two.^[9] Before Spivak's move to Los Angeles, he recorded bass for what would become the album titled Tech Noir, which was released in 2014.^[10]