Ben Zaidi's music mixes the gentle, velvety electronica with the lyrical wit of spoken-word poetry. His compositions, which he alone wrote and recorded in his bedroom, have the intimacy of a personal journal.
Zaidi was surrounded by the tranquility of the Pacific Northwest's natural world while growing up in Seattle. He started creating songs while still in high school, which drew the interest of nearby record firms and eventually Harvard University, where he enrolled to study music and poetry. He developed his own style in his dorm room by fusing James Blake's musical minimalism with the personal lyricism of Joni Mitchell's Blue Period.
He gained a following online, moved to New York City and within months, Rockwood Music Hall sold out back-to-back performances of him. It wasn't long before the independently released track "Like It Was Nothing" reached #2 on the iTunes Electronic Charts. Doors started to open and Zaidi soon found himself performing in front of a crowded house at Baby's All Right and working in the studio with musicians and producers he had always dreamed of working with.
Zaidi's writing has become more introspective as his music has become more expansive, analyzing the self and how it interacts with the outer world with uncompromising honesty. His reflections on love, sorrow and isolation in the digital era frequently highlight the contradiction that as linked as we have become, we may yet feel alone and alienated..

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