Benjamin Carignan

From FaBWiki

Ben in Lake George, 2009, with his one and only true lover, Bill Eager.

Benjamin Carignan ( better known as Katon or DJ Katon, born April 10th, 1989), is one of the four Fobbies are Borange main voice actors. His notable performances are as Jeff Andonuts, The Narrator, Apple Kid, Trisha, and Pokey Minch. FaB was broadcast on Friday nights at 11 EST on Radio PSI.

Benjamin joined Starmen.net on April 23rd, 2006. Before he became a Radio PSI DJ in September 2007, he was a DJ on Midweek Radio. He's also known as one of the first Starmen.netters to produce a good amount of acapella music, and the first to get it put on the fan music collection "Rock Candy".

Outside the music world, Benjamin enjoys crochet blankets.

He lives in Muncie, Indiana.

Early Life

In 2000, Benjamin joined his middle school’s chorus against his will and immediately fell in love with music and singing. Benjamin and his friends formed a small “lunch room jam” group named “The Plastic Cups.” Their talents included beatboxing, using lunch containers and equipment as instruments, and providing vocals, most of which were highly inappropriate on a middle school level.

Once Benjamin reached high school in 2003, he was separated from his old friends for one year until they rejoined in Oscar Smith High School’s Varsity Chorale. However, “The Plastic Cups” never reformed, as all of it’s former members matured over the year apart. It wasn’t until the spring of 2005 when he met with Melvin Rubio (Li’l Rubio) and immediately created an a cappella group named “The Flukes”. Like “The Plastic Cups” before, The Flukes favored performing in public places when the time called for it, yet their music was much nicer and family oriented.

Summer 2006 was the time in which Benjamin and Melvin were featured in an internet radio network named “Midweek Radio”. Benjamin, taking on the name “DJ Katon”, hosted a segment named “The Flukes Showdown”, in which him and Rubio would create one a cappella piece a week and have them faced against each other, giving the audience the vote on which is better. This segment spawned DJ Katon’s solo works as they are today.