Mark Davison, , known professionally as Benson Taylor, is an English composer, record producer, electronic musician and humanitarian who is best known for producing music for film. His style of music has a British influence, often working a classic film score sound amongst electronics, and other musical settings.Taylor won the "Best Original Music" award at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival. He scored and produced the music to Mathew Cullen's 2018 thriller adaptation of the Martin Amis novel, London Fields, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, Theo James and Johnny Depp.He founded A Remarkable Idea in 2017, a sub label of Universal Music which is located in Santa Monica, California. Taylor has collaborated with artists for A Remarkable Idea, including Maxïmo Park and Kele Okereke , Pulled Apart by Horses, Lack of Afro, Benoît Pioulard, Bo Ningen and The Halle orchestra.In November 2016, Taylor was awarded an honorary doctorate for services to humanitarian causes and music.He is an ambassador for the international aid agency CAFOD, and a goodwill ambassador for the Cambodian Children's Trust. He is patron of the British charity, Music and the Deaf. In 2016, Taylor was appointed the first ambassador of the music conservatoire, Leeds College of Music in the United Kingdom.
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10. September 1983
