Alec Benjamin’s tale goes something like this: he signed to Columbia Records, went to USC, was dumped by Columbia, played in parking lots, and then signed to Atlantic.
Alec Benjamin has recently returned from a headlining European tour, and as he settles into a couch at the Billboard offices a few weeks before a sold-out gig at Irving Plaza in New York City.
Why did Columbia Records drop Alec Benjamin?
If you knew Benjamin’s biography, which goes something like this: he signed to Columbia Records, attended the University of Southern California, was dumped by Columbia, played in parking lots, signed to Atlantic Records, and made it onto the Billboard Hot 100, you’d sympathize with his exhaustion.
It’s a good overview of everything he’s been through, but his path is a little more complicated than that.
And the growing singer understands that disclosing such facts might mean the difference between someone mistaking him for just another pretty singer-songwriter with a single radio hit and them seeing him as a truly outstanding musician.
