Ben Lazarus put a red Yamaha Key-tar on layaway at the tender age of 7 years old and still plays that axe 32 years later. Along the way he picked up several other instruments and joined a series of garage bands in the San Francisco Bay Area. A few months out of high school he was recruited by power-trio Stunt Monkey to play lead guitar- rounding out the pop punk band into a quartet. 

After 5 years of recording and touring, Lazarus moved to Los Angeles and became a production sound mixer for film and television. Over the next 15 years he wrote and recorded songs at home while working quietly behind the scenes. 

Many of Lazarus’ songs featured drum tracks by his younger brother Jonathan, who tragically took his own life in 2013. Like the biblical character Lazarus, Jonathan’s drumming rises from the grave in the completed songs.