Mink plays several string instruments, including the guitar, violin and the mandolin, and is an award-winning music producer. He is best-known as a long-time collaborator with Canadian singer k.d. lang. Mink has played on and produced several of her albums, which often combine her voice with string arrangements.

He began playing in bands in Toronto clubs when he was 18. In 1985, he met lang and their collaboration began. Before then Mink was a member of the bands Stringband, FM,CANO and The Blazing Zulus, and a sometime collaborator with Mendelson Joe.

Additionally, Mink played the electric violin on the Rush song "Losing It" from the their 1982 album Signals and the song "Faithless" from the 2007 album Snakes & Arrows. He also performed guitar parts on My Favourite Headache (2000), a solo project of Rush's lead singer Geddy Lee. More recently he has produced albums for the Barenaked Ladies, Inuit singer Susan Aglukark, and Ann Wilson of Heart. He was also responsible for the soundtrack to the 2009 SYFY production, "Alice". Mink has also played on recordings by Dan Hill, Geddy Lee, Anne Murray, Ronnie Prophet, Raffi, the guitarist Ken Ramm, Rush, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Sylvia Tyson and many others.

Ben Mink has one solo recording - the hard to find 1980 release, "Foreign Exchange", on Passport Records.

Awards

• 1990 - Nominated for a Best Country Song Grammy for Luck In My Eyes
• 1993 - Juno Winner, Songwriter of the Year
• 1994 - June Winner, Producer of the Year
• 2006 - Leo Winner, Best Musical Score for Terminal City
• 2006 - Leo Winner, Best Musical Score in a Dramatic Series for Terminal City
• 2009 - Leo Winner, Best Musical Score in a Feature Length Drama for Fifty Dead Men Walking