Oh Bennnnn!!!!!

If any of you are watching "The Sing-Off" this year (a truly marvelous singing competition), you would know that Ben Folds, of Ben Folds Five, is one of this year's judges. If you lived with me you'd know, I'm totally obsessed with him. I can not name one Ben Folds Five song, but you can just tell he is adorable and really genuine. Looks like I am going to have to start listening to his music as I have the biggest celeb crush on him

DREAMMMYYYYYY

• Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds (born September 12, 1966)
• American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five who now performs as a solo artist and collaborates with many other musicians.
• During his years at R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Folds played in several bands as the pianist, bassist, or drummer.
• In the late 1980s, Folds (as a bassist) and longtime friend Millard Powers formed the band Majosha.
• Folds attended the University of Miami's Frost School of Music on a percussion scholarship, but dropped out with one credit to go before graduating
• A jury recital consists of playing a prepared repertoire (and sometimes unprepared pieces from prior years of training) before faculty members who apply a grade for the entire semester. Folds, a drummer, showed up with a broken hand from defending his room mate from bullies the night before, but was required to play anyway. He ended up losing his scholarship and in desperation threw his drumkit into a lake on campus
• Played weekly gigs at Sin-é, famous for being the cafe which had helped start Jeff Buckley's career
• Soon after, Folds moved back to North Carolina. The trio of Folds, bassist Robert Sledge, and drummer Darren Jessee formed Ben Folds Five in 1994 in Chapel Hill.
• no Ben Folds Five singles reached the US Hot 100,
• Folds's first solo release after the breakup of the band was Rockin' the Suburbs in 2001. He played nearly all the instruments, notably guitar (an instrument seldom used during the Ben Folds Five days).
•  The Luckiest was written for the Amy Heckerling movie Loser, but the scene it was meant for was deleted
•  Folds became the first person to broadcast a live concert over MySpace. The concert was complete with pranks staged ahead of time by Folds, including a drunk man falling over the balcony during "Jesusland" and a suicide attempt at the end. The concert is also notable for featuring a "guitorchestra", a group of acoustic guitarists from Nashville who accompanied Folds on some songs, as well as a ringtone orchestra featuring members of the audience playing their cellphone ringtones in unison.
• Folds met Anna Goodman in first grade at Moore Elementary School, Winston Salem and was married to her from 1987–1992. Folds was then briefly married to Kate Rosen in 1996. He met Australian Frally Hynes in January 1998 and they were married in Adelaide, South Australia in May 1999. Folds filed for divorce in November 2006.
• Ben and Fleur Folds were married on November 17, 2007 at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas.  They are currently based in Nashville where they live with their three children, Gracie, Louis and Julia-Rose