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Musical Polymath Wynne Bennett is a record producer, songwriter, composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist who has been manifesting herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary music.

A featured producer on Janelle Monae’s GRAMMY-award nominated album (Album of the Year) Dirty Computer, specifically acclaimed single “PYNK” feat. Grimes (GRAMMY-award nominated Best Video).

Additional work includes collaborations with HAIM, serpentwithfeet, and GRAMMY-award nominated songwriter Tayla Parx (Khalid & Normani, Ariana Grande, Panic! at the Disco), with whom she has several releases on her first album 'We Need To Talk' (Atlantic) and 5 releases on her new album Coping Mechanisms with a Tank and the Bangas feature. She also produced and co-wrote Chinese hit single "Guang Dian" by artist Xiao Zhan which sold over 100 million digital copies in china and made it to the Guiness Book of World Records as the The fastest-selling digital track (China) with a reported 25.48 million downloads in 24 hour and became the #7 biggest selling song globally of 2020.

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Well known for her writing and production collaborations with Twin Shadow, her work can be heard on critically acclaimed albums Forget (4AD)Confess (4AD), Eclipse (Warner), and Caer (Warner).

Studying under the wing of Sun Ra’s manager and pianist Barry Harris, Bennett began playing piano at age 7 at the Harlem School of the Arts, with a focus in classical and jazz. Making her Kennedy Center concert pianist debut at age 18, she has since performed for global audiences, drawing from her background and musical identity in Harlem, playing hip-hop, jazz, and classical, gracing the stages of Carnegie Hall, Spoleto Festival, Afropunk, Coachella, the Kennedy Center, Sydney Opera House and more. While working as an improvising accompanist for modern and ballet dance classes at Juilliard, Tish, Alvin Ailey, and Martha Graham, Bennett found ways to begin producing, composing, and becoming a touring/session musician. 

Alongside GRAMMY-nominated work and notable collaborations across pop, hip-hop, R&B, and alternative genres, she is an accomplished composer who grew up on the east coast and now based in Los Angeles. Current projects include original score for #BAMARUSH (HBO MAX) May 2023 ( #1 most streamed documentary first week of premiere) and additional music score for Tales of the Walking Dead (AMC) and Queens (Disney+).  Other projects include scores for horror short La Ciguapa Siempre, which premiered at the Los Angeles Latinx International Film Festival as part of the Netflix Inclusion Fellowship; Janelle Monae’s Emotion Picture: Dirty Computer movie which debuted at select theaters and on BET; and Leaving Isiolo. Multiple soundtrack credits include I May Destroy You, Paper Towns, and Space Jam 2.

The Orchestra of St. Luke's premiered her original compositions “Insomnia” and “Tiny Chapters,” with The New York Times describing the former as "a quartet in which moments of intense emotionalism are offset by amusing touches and daring scoring effects,” comparing Bennett’s writing to Jimi Hendrix's “Purple Haze.” Wynne co-wrote arrangements for GRAMMY-award winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson, performed and written specifically for Wilson’s band, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphony. Touring with Tony Award winning choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company – The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company – Bennett was commissioned to compose music for his work A Quarreling Pair, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In theater and dance, her original score is heard in choreographer Ligia Lewis’ touring work, A Plot, A Scandal, with a US debut at the Museum of Contemporary Art  in Los Angeles this upcoming May 2023. She also scored S/S ‘16 for DKNY and Kenneth Nicholson’s S/S 2023 runway NYFW runway shows.

Her music production and songwriting work is featured on Janelle Monae’s GRAMMY nominated Album (for Album of the Year) Dirty Computer on the single “PYNK” feat. Grimes. Wynne’s writing and production can also be heard on DUCKWRTH & Cordae's "Settle The Score" on the Space Jam 2: A New Legacy soundtrack. Other notable credits include songs with Tayla Parx, HAIM, Twin Shadow, serpentwithfeet, Goldlink, Tank and the Bangas, Zeds Dead, Emily King, Joseph, and Poppy Ajudha.

She has future releases with artists Kid Cudi, Jamila Woods, Bree Runway, CL, and Kiana Ledé.

Past collaborations and writing sessions include Tori Kelly, Syd, Sebastian Yatra, Jon Batiste, Allie X, Pete Rock, Blitz the Ambassador, John Forte, DBR, Hudson Mohawke, Guillermo Brown, Sabrina Carpenter, NAO, Emily King, Ashnikko, Lizzo, Joy Oladokun, Mickey Guyton, Slick Rick, Little Brother, Maggie Rogers, Miya Folick, and Uffie. 

Wynne has internationally toured and performed at from clubs, festivals, and theaters like the Kennedy Center,Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Coachella, Lollapalooza, IHEARTRADIO, NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Venice Biennial.

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“...Grimes’ head spinning, bubblegum pop aesthetic influences producer Wynne Bennett’s spacious R&B beat....Flirty and delicate, wishful and raw, “PYNK” finds Monáe building a future worth believing in.”

 
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Wynne at home in her music production studio.

Los Angeles, CA