Eric is a Los Angeles-based music director, award winning music supervisor, creative music producer, songwriter, arranger, and drummer. Over the past 15 years, he has worn many hats: he was the music supervisor at Activision Blizzard (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero Live, Call of Duty League, Overwatch League). He has worked as a creative producer and music supervisor for marketing campaigns with Netflix, Amazon, Warner Brothers, Hasbro, Armani, Ford, Lincoln, and Capital One. He is a published arranger, a composer with music placements on Amazon, Netflix, and CBS, as well as a professional drummer that has performed with artists such as Lindsey Stirling and Speelburg.

Currently, Eric is the Music Director of the popular kids animated franchise CoComelon at Moonbug Entertainment. He oversees the music direction by developing, directing, and executing the entire music portfolio of the brand through various streams of content such as the YouTube channel, the various Netflix series, the albums released on Spotify, and more.

As an established drummer, you can regularly see Eric performing with the world-renowned improvisational group Baby Wants Candy and on the Netflix comedy special, "Todd Glass: Act Happy."

Happy Halloween from The Ben and Bren Show!

This week we are celebrating with just your hosts Benny and Brennan. We get into the Halloween spirit along with some fun new sound effects and Brennan gives us an incredible performance on the piano.

Eric Lee is an American Singer-Songwriter. Raised in South Florida, Lee grew up with eclectic tastes in music. With wide-ranging influences — from Dwight Yoakam, Bob Dylan, Eagles, and Dolly Parton; He emotes a unique voice in country music, creating vocally driven songs with heart and soul.

His debut single “Same Dirt Road” was released in Nov 2020 and quickly garnered millions of streams, hit no. 38 on the Music Row radio chart and obtained a strong international presence. Inspired by the idea that we’re all connected, no matter where we grow up and what “road” we walk, Lee both co-wrote and produced the release.

As a producer and co-writer, Lee’s music has been licensed for TV, film, and ads, most notably the song “Stronger Than I’ve Ever Been,” performed by Kaleena Zanders and featured in Toyota’s 2018 Super Bowl and Winter Olympics campaign.

His forthcoming album, “For Who You Are,” includes several tracks mixed by six-time Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White), with mastering by Grammy-winner Pete Lyman.

In 2023, iHeartRadio featured Lee’s holiday track “Happy Holidays” across multiple stations and playlists, sharing his heartfelt celebration of unity and the holiday spirit with listeners everywhere.

Jasha Klebe is a composer known for emotive melodies and conceptually unique scores. Because of this, he has become particularly sought after for some of the most prestigious natural history programs today. From co-scoring the BAFTA and Emmy nominated music of BBC’s Planet Earth II, (alongside Hans Zimmer & Jacob Shea), to additionally providing music to the follow up series, Blue Planet II, ITV’s groundbreaking 6-part series, A Year On Planet Earth - narrated by Stephen Fry, to Netflix’s bold nature documentary series, Animal, FOX’s Malika the Lion Queen narrated by Angela Bassett, Plimsoll’s vividly eye-opening Queer Planet, to most recently co-scoring Netflix’s highly acclaimed blue-chip series, Our Planet II narrated by David Attenborough. With each program, Jasha has been praised for bringing a fresh and daringly creative new perspective to the genre.

Beyond natural history, Jasha composed the emotionally moving score to Netflix’s Oscar nominated documentary, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom as well the follow up film Freedom on Fire, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Jasha has also scored the Emmy nominated music of National Geographic’s Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes and Diana: In Her Own Words. His music can be heard in the Robert Zemeckis Netflix series, Medal of Honor, Garrett Bradley’s, Naomi Osaka and the 2019 Emmy-nominated film, The Black Godfather, directed by Reginald Hudlin and produced by Nicole Avant. Jasha also provided the inspired percussive score to Peacock’s reimagining of Queer As Folk, created by Stephen Dunn and exec produced by Russell T Davies.

Outside of film and tv, Jasha has provided music to some of the most exciting podcasts, including Imperative Entertainment’s American Coyote, The Agent, Elizabeth the First, & recently Wavland’s The High Roller Heist. Additionally, Jasha’s 2021 single Hum was featured in the trailer for the BAFTA nominated film, All Of Us Strangers.

Jasha began his musical career at the age of 5, singing at his Grandparents’ opera house, Cinnabar Theater, in Petaluma, CA. He studied classical piano and trombone for over 15 years before he moved to Los Angeles and started working at Remote Control Productions under Hans Zimmer. Over the 4 years with Hans, Jasha wrote on such films as The Dark Knight Rises, Rush, Man of Steel, and several other notable projects. Jasha was also the music arranger for the 84th Academy Awards, as well as keyboard/ synthesizer player within the event’s orchestra. In 2013, Jasha began to serve as one of the headlining composers at Bleeding Fingers Music. Within this role, Jasha contributed countless hours of music to some of the most acclaimed series on television, including shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, Netflix, Lifetime, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC, and he performed live on The Late Show with Colbert alongside Shea and Zimmer.

Jasha currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Brian Logan Dales is a songwriter, actor and the lead singer for pop/rock band The Summer Set. Since 2007, he has released five albums— selling half a million singles and garnering over 500 million streams on Spotify. In 2013, The Summer Set received the iHeartradio Rising Star Award, and performed alongside Queen, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, and more at The iHeartradio Festival as well as in the coveted Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Since then they have sold out venues around the world, and headlined the Vans Warped Tour. Their songs have been heard in TV shows on Netflix, Amazon, The CW and MTV.

David Parks is a native Memphian and an accomplished bassist. After graduating from the University of Memphis, with a degree in jazz performance, Parks auditioned and won 3rd place in MTV’s hit show Making His Band. Parks would go on to tour with pop megastars such as Justin Beiber, Jason Derulo and famed reggae artist Skip Marley.

An accomplished studio musician, Parks’ slick basslines can be heard be heard on Jason Derulo’s hit singles “Slidin”, “From the Island”, Andy Grammar’s “Joy”, and Ledisi’s Grammy Winning smash “Anything for You” to name a few.

In 2021, Parks stepped from behind the bass to star and co-produce the acclaimed short film, Chocolate Galaxy, an afro-futuristic hip hop opera that earned top honors in the Indie Memphis Film Fest, and garnered an honorable mention as one of The Memphis Flyer’s top films of the year.

Currently, Parks is taking his knowledge and experience of over 15 years in the music industry to produce the book and web series “The Tour Life: An artist guide to life on the road”.

“My goal is to help younger musicians take the necessary steps to achieve their dreams.” The Tour Life will serve as a step by step curriculum to help students go from classrooms to arenas.

Hal Rosenfeld is equal-parts composer, music producer, percussionist, and orchestrator whose work can be heard in nearly 300 films, television shows, and video games.

Hailed for his extreme versatility, creativity, and expansive production across all genres, Hal has been involved with projects that have garnered Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony recognition, including “The Greatest Showman,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “In the Heights,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023),” and Laufey's Grammy-winning sophomore album “Bewitched.”

He is prominently featured on blockbuster soundtracks such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “Chicken Run 2,” “Fortnite,” “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and groundbreaking Netflix series “The Witcher.”

Working outside of film and television, Hal has appeared with Ringo Starr, Lady Gaga, Hozier, Yoko Ono, Kanye West, Jonas Brothers, Hans Zimmer, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Imogen Heap, Cuco, and Rosa Linn, as well as on albums that total millions of unit sales and over 1 billion Spotify streams, globally. His orchestrations have been performed by symphonic orchestras worldwide, including the LA Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; he is a recurring musical guest on Sweden’s TV variety show “Bingolotto.” Aside from music, he actively raises funds and awareness to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Hal currently lives in Los Angeles, where he once made prolonged eye contact with Emma Watson at a party.

In this episode we'll hear Hal discuss his journey from growing up in South Florida to working with some of Hollywood's greatest talents, his favorite movie going snacks, as well as having to work in a Starbucks urinal to meet a tight deadline.

The daughter of Brazilian jazz drummer, Duduka Da Fonseca, Alana Da Fonseca grew up in Manhattan surrounded by a community of musicians. After graduating cum laude from Purchase College with a degree in Music Production, she began mixing and producing at an award winning music house in New York City, transitioning into the film/tv space in 2005.

Alana’s recent projects include; music producer for the hit Netflix series, Wednesday, for which she was nominated for a Grammy®, Series Songwriter for the upcoming Disney Series, Primos, songwriter and producer for Walt Disney World’s 50th Anniversary anthem, The Magic is Calling, and vocal producer for Julian Casablancas’ upcoming album with his group, The Voidz.

In this episode we'll hear what it was like growing up in a prestigious musical family in Greenwich Village, how Alana is currently championing woman in music, how she originally got into making music for film and television, and fun stories from working with artists like Daft Punk, Kesha, Rebel Wilson, and Miley Cyrus.