Biografia
Musician, Actor and Entreprenuer Bentley Montes is more than just a creative aficionado. He is a quadruple threat who truly finds the beauty in life moving not linearly, but rather in large full circle moments. After spending the last 10 years in the music industry, climbing the greasy rungs from local clubs and venues to world-class festivals including EDC, Tomorrowland, and Aftershock, Bentley has forayed back into the world of Film and Television as a lead in the new movie Fey alongside Dani Thorne. Bentley Montes, born in 1989 to Robert & Kathy Montes in Conroe, TX in a quaint neighborhood called River Plantation bordering the country-line. Always staying busy as a youth, Bentley juggled football, studies, theatre, and his own personal film-making projects throughout his junior and high school careers. Bentley earned a scholarship in High School for acting and his talents took him from the small pond to the big ocean in 2007 where he landed in the School of Theatre, Film & Television at UCLA. Although Bentley excelled where needed, financial circumstances led him to drop out and pursue his own personal passions. In 2010 Bentley signed with CESD Agency and after a string of commercials, small TV spots, and various other entertainment achievements, Bentley spearheaded DJ culture, entering the Los Angeles club circuit as early as 19. Eventually, after some success he launched the Pixel Terror electronic music duo in 2016 which has honed over 300,000 monthly listeners and accrued tens of millions of song plays over the course of half a decade with support from electronic music industry giants including Illenium, Kayzo, Knife Party and more. In 2021, disaster struck when Bentley suddenly lost his father to an apparent suicide. Through this life-changing experience Bentley decided it was time to take things to a new level. He got sober, got serious, and began performing vocals on his productions as well as featuring on other songs with various music legends. This singer-songwriter undertaking led eventually to a peak performance with the legacy band Orgy at Aftershock 2024. With much more on the horizon, Bentley continues to push the boundaries of electronic and metal in his musical endeavors. In 2022, Scott McElroy cast him as a lead in the Independent feature Fey, to which he also produced and composed the soundtrack for. Bentley continues to look forward to opportunities in both the film and music industries and is additionally garnering more and more credits as director and producer on both music videos and independent films. There is no limit to what Bentley will not do with this wonderful life.
