Personal Life
Benjamin Agosto was born January 15, 1982, in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Northbrook, Illinois. He moved to Detroit, Michigan in June 1998 in order to train under Igor Shpilband. He is the son of a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother whose family has roots in Romania and Russia. Agosto attended grade school at the Chicago Waldorf School, then Glenbrook North High School for two years before moving to Michigan where he graduated with honors from Groves High School in June 2000. Agosto played in a high school jazz band and hopes to become a blues player someday. He is also a voice actor and has voiced characters in video games. He has performed on television as a spokesperson for the United States Census. Agosto also works as a skating coach.
Agosto lived and trained in Canton, Michigan through the summer of 2008, before he moved to Aston, Pennsylvania to train at the Ice Works Skating Complex. In September 2010, he moved to Lacey, Washington.
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