Viral Music Phenom Jacob Collier: This “Life-Changing” Moment Unlocked New Creative Powers
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Published 2024-03-05
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Jacob Collier has been called the “Mozart of Gen Z” by the New York Times. As a teen, his one-man-band performances went viral and led to a cold email from (and friendship with) music legend Quincy Jones – one of many topics he discusses in this episode.
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(0:00:00) Intro
(0:01:22) Jacob’s early life, learning to sing and play instruments
(0:14:45) What makes a good singer?
(0:19:45) His experience in school
(0:23:45) Going viral on Youtube
(0:30:00) Can anyone be creative?
(0:34:45) Optimism
(0:42:00) Record labels “didn’t know what to do with me”
(0:47:36) What does the future hold for Jacob?
(0:53:45) Djesse Vol 4 and collaborating remotely with big-name artists
(0:57:30) Human choirs
Mentioned in this episode:
• Jacob’s rendition of Pure Imagination - • Pure Imagination - Jacob Collier and
• Directing an audience choir Jacob Collier - The Audience Choir (Live at O2 Academy Brixton, London)
• TED Talk -www.ted.com/talks/jacob_collier_a_one_man_musical_…
• Tiny Desk Concert (2019) - • Jacob Collier: NPR Music Tiny Desk Co...
Connect with Jacob:
• 💻Website: www.jacobcollier.com/
• 📺Youtube: youtube.com/@jacobcollier
• 📸Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobcollier/
• 🎵TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@jacobcollier
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All Comments (21)
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“I revere my audiences..,they’re part of the band” 🙏🏻spreading so much joy to the world, thank you Jacob!
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Just listening to this for the second time 😅the wisdom, authenticity and humility in this amazing human being is just beautiful 🙏🏻thank you so much for sharing it 😊
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Gem of an interview! So happy this just showed up as a suggestion. Jacob is an enlightnened being here to spread the love. Infinite gratitude ❤
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Listening to him is always a treat :)
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Thank you Guy for asking Jacob about how the absence of his father affected him and asking him with very good tack. Though all in all it is really none of my business about his personal life, it really spoke to me. Great interview.
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Jacob is such a joy. Such a brilliant communicator, on top of being a brilliant musician. Exceptional talk! So well researched Guy Raz, you knew the detail and formulated good questions around that information. Easy sub, for me...
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The intersection of Guy Raz -- the greatest interviewer of builders and creators in our generation -- interviewing Jacob Collier -- the greatest musician of our generation IMHO -- is... in a word... transcendent 😎
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“AI built to exaggerate current forms.” Smartest line I’ve heard in a month.
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Incredible interview! I could listen to Jacob speak for days, I learn so much.
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Absolute clarity and Truth in everything Jacob expresses. Such a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for facilitating such an inspiring conversation ❤🙏🙏🙏
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Amazing Interview, Jacob is such an interesting person and Guy is such a Good interviewer, letting the guest all the time to express, and asking very interesting questions. I highly recommend Guy’s podcasts !
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What an amazing interview. I was deeply touched by Jacob's admiration of great Renaissance composers like William Byrd and Thomas Tallis!
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2:12 2nd language: avid listener, avid player, avid singer 2:26 found music to be a very very valuable and rich companion to all stages of life right from the very beginnings to the present moment 2:37 lucky to have had access to the breadth of music but also the curiosity of music like: how does this work; why do I FEEL like this when I hear this chord or this sound; how is the energy controlled; what are the human beings trying to say?
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Such a great interview. I’ve listened to countless Jacob interviews and I haven’t come across anyone who tapped into his thoughts on his own optimism and if it’s easy for him to feel that way; thank you for opening up that conversation.
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Excellent articulations of healthy, integrated, honest and possibility-laden thought processes.
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Excellent interview! Thanks for sharing
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Grandfather’s cutlery 🤣🤣
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Great conversation.
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3:30 I picked it up as I went along. I was very interested in how to be a bass player or a drummer or how to play piano. …there was no qualifications that I had other than my DEEP INTEREST…and I had 1. a microphone (SM58) 2. A computer 3. Software to layer up 4. these different sounds 5. to imitate and replicate 6. the things I was hearing in the world around me 7. vocals 8. harmonies 9. the way they can layer up 10. eventually more instruments 11. lucky to have that music space/room.
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Great interview
