Benson Taylor FRSA is an English composer, songwriter, record producer, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work on film, television and video game scores. In November 2016, Taylor was awarded an honorary doctorate for services to humanitarian causes and music.
He founded A Remarkable Idea in 2017, a sub label of Universal Music, located in Santa Monica, California and London. Taylor has collaborated with, and produced many artists for the label, including MOBO-winning jazz quartet Kairos 4Tet, The Halle Orchestra, Mercury Prize-nominated Maxïmo Park and Kele Okereke, Bloc Party, Good Charlotte's Billy Martin, Pulled Apart by Horses, Robot Koch, Lack of Afro, Benoît Pioulard, Freddie Cowan, Bo Ningen, James Brown, and Menace Beach. He founded Luco in 2020, a Los Angeles and San Francisco based music company in partnership with Warner Music Group, publishing catalogues and developing AI technologies.
Taylor won the "Best Original Music" award at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival.