Ben Buddy Slack is an award winning singer songwriter and community musician based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He has been writing and performing music for close to 20 years and delivering community music projects for over 10. 

Ben has a deep belief in the power of songs to help us deal with life’s challenges. He has worked with hundreds of people in difficult situations to help them process and express their experiences through song. The majority of these through his extensive songwriting work in prisons, in mental health settings and with people facing end of life through The Swan Song Project.

In his own work Ben loves writing songs about complex characters in difficult situations doing the best they can. He has written songs in a wide range of styles, from the alternative blues rock sound of The Blind Dead McJones Band to delicate solo acoustic work with 2016s “Miserabelia” and the haunting duo album “Shallow Roots” with Siobhan Donnelly. Ben has a great love of performing and connecting with an audience and despite the heavy subject matter of his songs his warmth and humour on stage make his shows greatly uplifting experiences.

In 2017 Ben founded The Swan Song Project, a charity that helps people facing the end of their lives to write an original song. The lead to him taking a step back from his own writing and performing schedule but now he is back with an album of new songs and is looking forward to sharing them.

“You Will See The Light” is set to be released in late 2023 and showcases Bens development as a songwriter. The songs cover complex themes and cross musical genres all delivered with Bens deep and raw vocal style.