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Benjamin & Mia

About Me

Benjamin & Mia are a folk duo that has a passion to create artful expressions of music that illuminate truth and beauty. They have been making music together for five years and are very exited to share with you their debut album - The Carousel of Life. Their music is characterized by well-blended, warm and rich vocal harmonies accompanied by intricate and colourful chord progressions played on acoustic instruments.
Benjamin is currently completing his music degree at Canada Christian College and Mia is a music graduate of York University. Together they have a wide range of performance and recording experience including concerts at churches, coffee houses and Mel Lastman Square. Benjamin has also been a part of two other professional recordings and has appeared on 100 Huntley Street.
Both Benjamin Hackett and Mia Cioffi knew they were called to be singer songwriters, but their gifting did not come into full bloom until they wrote their first song together after taking the advice of a mutual friend. Since that day, nearly four years ago, the duo's passion for singing, song writing and music making has grown and continues to flourish with the release of their debut album - The Carousel of Life. Benjamin and Mia, wrote, arranged, performed, recorded and produced the entire album themselves from their home studios. The Carousel of Life showcases their poetic, positive, thoughtful and reflective writing style, which is enhanced by the duo’s vocal ability with beautiful, rich and unique harmonies. This is paired with well thought-out instrument arrangements creating a whimsical, sweet and smart musical style that is unique to them. In live performances the characteristic elements of their music shine through and capture audiences attention while provoking them to self-reflection.
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Member Since: 30/09/2007
Band Website: www.benjaminandmia.com
Band Members: Benjamin Hackett - Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, and a CARNIVAL of other instruments.

Mia Cioffi - Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, and a FAIR bunch of other sounds.
Influences: Caedmon's Call
Derek Webb
Andrew Osenga
Steve Bell
Jacob Moon
Randall Goodgame
Oh Susanna
Goo Goo Dolls
Carrie Newcomer
Chantal Kreviazuk
Jewel
Mia (for Benjamin) and Benjamin (for Mia)
A good home cooked meal, the fair of course, apple picking, family, friends, movies where you leave the theatre and still don't know exactly what happened, and a great sermon.
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Record Label: Benjamin and Mia Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Life is Really an Adventure...

Its been an interesting few weeks for me. Life has proceeded as usual yet something underneath has been stirred and for the better. You know those times when God starts gently speaking to you. Its an ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:01:00 GMT

Singing with the Stars Top Ten!

Hello everyone! You may not all know this but Benjamin & I entered the Grace fm 105.9 (London) Singing with the Stars contest and have successfully made it into the top ten. That means w...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Trying Something New

Well, seeing as this is my first crack at a blog entry I'll say a big hello to the world wide web! The purpose of this blog entry is really just to test out the whole myspace blogging feature. I apolo...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:16:00 GMT