Alec Benjamin realized he wanted to be a songwriter after witnessing the power of music to captivate people at a summer camp, feeling it was a way to communicate his ideas.

“I think the thing inside of me that I always felt like wasn't that I wanted was for people to just listen to what I had to say and I felt like I couldn't get them to listen and I was like well if I can sing the things that I want to say then maybe that will be a more powerful way to communicate my m”