Ben Jorgensen is an American musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best-known as the lead singer and the guitarist of the
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'', March 16, 2006. "It's hard to imagine a more morbid form of writer's block than this: ''I was kind of stuck in that place where the only thing I could write about was through the perspective of me being dead'', says Ben Jorgensen, singer, guitarist and lyricist for the Teaneck, N.J.,...", Jorgensen attended the Jewish day school,
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Early in his musical career Jorgensen was the drummer for
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band Random Task. Jorgensen then formed Armor for Sleep in 2001. He began writing the first songs during the summer after his first year in college. Jorgensen recorded these songs as a demo CD for $100 at a local recording studio, with Jorgensen playing all the instruments himself. These songs were later re-recorded for Armor For Sleep's debut album, '' Dream to Make Believe'', released in 2003 on
Equal Vision Records
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Armor for Sleep disbanded in 2009 (though they would later reunite in 2020), and Jorgensen started an
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project with Sierra Shardae, named God Loves a Challenge, which only released an unnamed EP of various tracks. Jorgensen recorded his debut solo EP, titled ''There Is Nowhere Left to Go'', at Treehouse Studios in
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Jorgensen made a cameo appearance in
Fall Out Boy
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Cobra Starship
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's video for "
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," in 2007, playing alongside
Pete Wentz
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as a policeman.
Personal life
In 2013, Jorgensen married actress
Katrina Bowden
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They divorced in 2020. He is now dating Kailey Cost.
What to Do When You Are Dead
''What to Do When You Are Dead'' is the second studio album by American rock band Armor for Sleep. Following the completion of two songs written from the perspective of being dead, vocalist/guitarist Ben Jorgensen created a whole story from thi ...
'' (2005)
*'' Smile For Them'' (2007)
*'' The Way Out Is Broken'' EP (2008)
*''The Rain Museum'' (2022)
God Loves A Challenge
*Various tracks (2009) self-released
Solo material
*''There Is Nowhere Left To Go'' EP (October 5, 2010) self-released
Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records is an independent record label based in Albany, New York. It was founded in the early 1990s by Ray Cappo, singer for the punk bands Youth of Today, Shelter, and Better Than a Thousand.
The label originally existed solely to ...