Ben Jorgensen

Rock Singer and Guitarist

Male

Born Jul 4, 1983

Age 29

Hometown Teaneck, New Jersey

Genres Alternative rock ...

Instruments Electric Guitar +...

Performed With Armor for Sleep +...

Record Label Equal Vision Records

Ben "Slork" Jorgensen was the lead singer and guitarist of the New Jersey band Armor for Sleep. He wrote the first Armor for Sleep songs during the summer after his first year in college, and recorded them as a demo cd for $100 at a local recording studio… Read More

Romance

Check out the latest love interests for Ben Jorgensen.

Katarzyna Dolinska

Fling 2008
Katrina Bowden
Dated 2006

News + Updates

Browse recent news and stories about Ben Jorgensen.

Tableau Software Appoints Ren Jurgensen To Board Of Directors
Yahoo News - Sep 06, 2012

Company Continues to Expand Leadership in the Midst of Rapid GrowthSeattle, WA (PRWEB) September 05, 2012 Tableau Software, the leader in rapid-fire business intelligence, today announced that it has appointed Ren Jurgensen to its Board of Directors. Jurgensen serves on the boards of Bsquare Corporation and ASG Consolidated LLC. He previously served on the boards of Isilon Systems, Inc., McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, Inc., and Varolii Corporation. He has been the “Audit Commi...
read full article
Music; Who Says You Can't Leave Home? Armor For Sleep
NYTimes - Dec 09, 2007

''THE more you go away, the more you realize how great New Jersey is,'' said P. J. DeCicco, guitarist for the band Armor for Sleep, lounging in the back of a tour bus strewn with Red Bull empties and stray shoes. ''It's the people here. They're all very down-to-earth, very normal.'' Given the particulars of Mr. DeCicco's whereabouts during an
read full article
Finding Emo
NYTimes - Aug 14, 2005

THERE is no shortage of cultural exports from New Jersey: the ethnic clichés of ''The Sopranos,'' the tortured grotesques of the filmmaker Todd Solondz and those grand oldies acts Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. Add to this list emo, or emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk. That is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a
read full article
Since Coming Out Is In, A Guide For The Tv Audience
NYTimes - Feb 23, 1997

WHY are people all atwitter at the possibility that the lead character of the sitcom ''Ellen,'' played by Ellen DeGeneres, will come out of the closet on television? What's the big deal? There have been hordes of openly gay characters before her, especially in made-for-television movies, since ''That Certain Summer'' in 1971. And only last month,
read full article

Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Ben Jorgensen.

CHILDHOOD

1983 Birth Born on July 4, 1983.

TEENAGE

2001 18 Years Old He attended Jewish day school, the Solomon Schechter of Bergen County and the Solomon Schechter of Essex and Union, where he graduated in 2001. … Read More

TWENTIES

2012 29 Years Old On January 28, 2012, Jorgensen proposed to his girlfriend of two years, actress Katrina Bowden, at the Four Seasons Hotel. … Read More

Original Authors of this text are noted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jorgensen.
Text is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.