Ben Onono

Ben Onono is an Ivor Novello and Grammy nominated musician, composer and songwriter of mixed British and Nigerian heritage. His training as a concert pianist from a young age, leading to a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and background as a recording artist/songwriter, laid the basis for a burgeoning and exciting career in the film and television world.

His composer credits include the four-part BBC series Ridley Road, Netflix’s Supa Team 4, horror film Spell for Paramount Pictures, the adaptation of the award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, Netflix’s hit show Safe and the BBC One series Trust Me starring Jodie Whittaker.

From Ben’s album Native Stranger, the track ‘Blink’ was featured on the soundtrack for the BBC series The Long Way Down, starring Ewan McGregor and the entire album featured across the 6-part series. Ben’s song ‘Count to 10’ was used for the Netflix movie trailer for Special Correspondents and his cover of the Stevie Wonder classic ‘Never had a Dream Come True’ was featured in the movie John Tucker Must Die. Other songs have featured in the US TV series The Shield, Nip and Tuck, and Las Vegas.

Ben’s extensive songwriting credits include the Ivor Novello award nominated hit single ‘It Just Won’t Do’ co-written with Tim Deluxe, ‘Rainbow of Love’ with Bob Sinclar, Saffron Hill’s ‘My Love is Always’ for which he was writer and vocalist and ‘Fallen Hero’ with NuFrequency. Ben has also written material for David Guetta, Cicada, Bob Sinclar, Fatboy Slim, Rui Da Silva, Futureshock, and Natalie Imbruglia.