Background
He is the son of folk rock artists James Taylor and Carly Simon.
Actor engineer musician songwriter record producer
He is the son of folk rock artists James Taylor and Carly Simon.
Taylor"s most recent role was that of Cal Cooper on American Dreams (2004). He has also appeared on the United Kingdom show Always and Everyone (1999). Taylor"s cover of Macy Gray"s was used in a Honey Nut Cheerios television commercial in Canada aired late 2008, early 2009.
Taylor recently appeared as himself on the American Broadcasting Company Family Reality summer hit, The Vineyard (2013) Taylor appears on the Civil Defense Too Many Years contributing the original track "Listen to The Music" to benefit Clear Path International"s work with land mine survivors.
Benjamin Simon Taylor attended high school at Tabor Academy, a college preparatory boarding school in Marion, Massachusetts. Taylor has been training in martial arts since he was a teenager.
According to the December 2008 issue of Black Belt Magazine, Taylor has trained extensively in qigong, t"ai chi ch"uan, wing chun kung fu, and recently Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Renzo Gracie. Taylor"s sister, Sally Taylor, is also a musician and they have frequently worked together.