Billy talent ben kowalewicz biography for kids
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In you told Kerrang! that you were going through a form of “survivor’s guilt” about going on without Aaron. When you found out he couldn’t continue, did you come close to calling it a day?
“I mean, everything goes through your mind when you face something like that. It’s your best friend, it’s your bandmate. Again, we’ve been doing this since we were kids, and to see your best friend not be able to perform due to this disease is the most heartbreaking fucking thing in the world. We didn’t know how that was going to pan out; we didn’t know how to proceed. In those situations in life, you just have to talk and be open and honest, and laugh, cry and try to figure the best solution. With Aaron’s blessing and his undying love for the band and what we do, he wanted us to continue. But it was extremely difficult. When you have four people go to three, it was like, we’re missing 25 per cent of the ingredient to the stew. Playing live with Aaron, I didn’t even have to look at him and I’d k
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From growing up to dropping out of school, from playing drums to becoming the face of Billy Talent, here is everything you need to know about Benjamin Kowalewicz
- The singer&#;s full name is Benjamin Ian Kowalewicz (/ˌkɒvæˈlɛvɪtʃ/). The unusual last name, Kowalewicz, is explained by Ben&#;s Polish descent.
- Kowalewicz was born in Pierrefonds, Montreal. Whe he was 11, his family moved to Streetsville, Ontario. Now, the singer lives in downtown Toronto. His home in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto was featured on the Canadian home decorating TV show Designer Guys.
- While studying at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School, Kowalewicz was playing drums in a band named To Each His Own. It was there that he moved from drums to vocals and rhythm guitar.
- The first gig the school band ever played was at their high school talent show in the cafeteria.
- In , the four Billy-Talent-to-be members started playing in high school in Mississauga under the name Pezz.
- The same year they play
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It was all going to plan until it wasn’t. The first time Kerrang! spoke to frontman Ben Kowalewicz about Billy Talent’s eagerly-anticipated sixth album in , they were still hard at work on it in the studio. The Toronto titans – completed bygd guitarist Ian D’Sa, bassist Jonathan Gallant, drummer Jordan Hastings and Aaron Solowoniuk (who stepped down from drumming owing to his fight with MS but continues “to play a part of every decision, every email”) – were writing songs and drip-feed releasing them as they went along. And then… Well, you know the rest bygd now.
“The world shut down,” sighs Ben of how the pandemic changed not only their plans, but also the record they were making. “Since then, there's been so much that has happened, not only just within our lives as the grupp, but throughout the world, throughout the planet. It was everything from what was happening in the States with the rise and fall of Trump and this divisive cancer that seems to be spreading throughout the world, t