Ben Klick

A fun-loving entertainer and storyteller with a huge heart for my family and community. Canadian-born and raised in Vancouver, BC, he started his journey at 4 years old singing along to Shania Twain, Great Big Sea, and the musical, Grease into a purple plastic microphone while wearing a Fisher-Price electric guitar. After seeing Shania Twain in concert in the Summer of 2001, Ben’s parents surprised him with a guitar for Christmas which led straight into lessons at age 5. He was classically trained by the book to read music notation and play nylon string classical guitar in church recitals eventually leading to my first live performance singing and playing Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”. After being called “cocky” by his second-grade teacher, Ben remained a quiet and introverted student through school. Moving to West Kelowna, BC, for the start of grade five started his journey into reading tablature and studying iconic guitarists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, which turned into learning music theory and transcribing songs by ear. In the following years, Ben entered numerous competitions in the interior of British Columbia, garnered multiple wins, and play... more...