Biography
Benjamin Merkelbach is a songwriter, project manager, music and radio producer with an unshakeable old school work ethos.
After being deeply involved in Ibiza´s thriving music and entertainment industry from 1993 until 2018, he is now based in Gandia on the Spanish mainland where he recently built a studio for music and radio production.
Benjamin produces weekly radio shows for the German DJ Chris Liebing since 2007, whose renowned AMFM program nowadays counts close to 6 million listeners worldwide. He also produces the weekly radio show of his own brand finca am, which has been paying tribute to Ibiza´s eclectic musical heritage since more than a decade and is currently broadcasting every Saturday at 3 PM on Ibiza Global Radio.
As a songwriter and producer he has had numerous releases on renowned compilations using the alias Benj Hanx, amongst them the million-selling Levitation “More Than Ever People” and Slow Pulse feat. Cathy Battistessa “Riva” in the emblematic Café Del Mar series, where he debuted as sound engineer for the track “Grillos” by theinventor of Balearic Flamenco Paco Fernandez, using his engineering alias Don Benjamín.
He is a passionate and experienced event manager who has run and promoted events in all of the island´s major clubs, including Amnesia, Privilege, Ushuaia and Pacha. In four consecutive summer seasons at the legendary Space/Ibiza he was responsible for up to three weekly parties including the successful in-house ventures “be@Space” and “Kehakuma”, at the same time producing the corresponding podcasts.
His open minded, friendly nature, disciplined and focused work method as well as his trilingual abilities in spoken and written language have made him an in-demand professional in several music business areas such as studio and live sound engineering, night management and event promotion, label accounting, publishing affairs, online services as well as content creation and translations of all kinds in German, English and Spanish language.
Contact & complete CV: mail@benjaminmerkelbach.com


