From The Archives: Ben Barnes, Actor, Musician

The interview, originally conducted in October of 2021, is the most popular to date!
It was a pleasure to talk with Ben Barnes back about his debut music album SONGS FOR YOU,  his musical inspirations, and more.

Check the links below to order the album, purchase BB's merch, and more.
SONGS FOR YOU https://ingroov.es/songs-for-you

Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenBarnesMusic

Bandwear Store: https://shop.bandwear.com/benbarnes

 Spotify “Influences” playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KZCER7ycCrujdIhJpIcKl?si=ESlHS6doQMi9zlaVTxKdlg&dl_branch=1&nd=1

Ben Barnes is known to many for portraying fantasy heroes and comic-book villains, characters from history and classic novels and the occasional romantic street busker or wannabe rock-star. His own fantasies, stories and dreams have until now been eclipsed by these roles.

With Songs For You, Barnes is baring his soul through his music for the first time; hopeful, joyful, passionate, nostalgic, vulnerable and loving. The lyrics to most of the songs, he explains, came from “poetry written for a loved one or just for myself, a long-forgotten phrase I jotted down in a notebook years ago, inspired by a photograph, a moment, a quotation, or in the case of one song, a story I read about a female pirate!”

After years of being directed, written for and edited in movies, this is his moment to shine the light on the five songs on Songs For You, lovingly crafted at his piano at home and presented unedited and straight from the heart.

Barnes shared, “Songs For You comes from one of my favorite records, ‘A Song For You’ by Leon Russell (but the Donny Hathaway version, of course), from wanting the songs to speak intimately to anyone who listens to them, and because if a song is written for you, you know who you are.”

Ben Barnes has starred in films, TV shows and theater productions spanning the last 20 years: