Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier (né Moriarty; born ) is an English musician. His music incorporates elements from many musical genres, and often features extreme use of reharmonisation and close harmony. He is also known for his energetic live performances, in which he often conducts the audience to sing multiple-part harmonies or percussions.
He initially did music covers (mostly acapella) on YouTube, but then started to make his own music, releasing his first music album In My Room in 2016.
==Early life==
Collier was born on August 2, 1994. He grew up in north London, raised with two younger sisters. His mother, Suzie Collier, is a violinist, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music's Junior Academy. Collier's maternal grandfather, Derek Collier, was a violinist who also taught at the Royal Academy and performed with orchestras around the world. Collier says, "We sing Bach chorales together as family – it's just so much fun." Collier is partly of Chinese descent, through his maternal grandmother, Lila Wong.
At age 10, he portrayed Tiny Tim in Arthur Allan Seidelman's A Christmas Carol. At the same time, Collier was also performing as a treble singer in classical roles such as one of the three boys in Mozart's The Magic Flute and "Miles" in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, the latter of which heavily influenced his usage and understanding of harmony. Of Britten's harmonic language, Collier says, "my mind was shattered outwards." Collier received the ABRSM Gold Medal for the highest mark in the country for his grade eight singing result in 2008.
Collier attended Mill Hill County High School in north London and The Purcell School for Young Musicians in Bushey, Hertfordshire. He briefly studied jazz piano at the Royal Academy.
==YouTube and music history==
He created his YouTube channel on December 15, 2011 and uploaded his first video on the same day, showcasing his original song "Serendipity". He then started to upload acapella covers, starting with a reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1845 poem The Arrow and the Song on December 18. He released his first music album on July 1, 2016.
He announced that in October 2018 that he's making Djesse, a collection of four albums. Each record represents a different part of the day, with describing daybreak. Volume 1 was released on December 7, 2018.
, representing the spring of life, was released on July 19, 2019. , representing nighttime, was released on August 14, 2020.
==Musical style==
Coming from a family of musicians, Collier was introduced to music at a very early age. With the support of his mother, he learned to play various instruments and became acquainted with an array of musical concepts. His recording career began in his family home, in a room filled with instruments that his mother used to teach violin lessons. There, he recorded himself singing and playing instruments – primarily covers of jazz standards or pop songs – using a split screen recording technique to visualize his vocals, which he uploaded to YouTube. These recordings often featured extreme uses of reharmonization, close harmony, dissonance, microtonality and polyrhythms, all relatively complex and uncommon concepts in popular music. Some of these incursions were aided by Collier's rare ability to recognize musical notes by ear, called absolute pitch.
==Trivia==
*Djesse (pronounced with a silent D) is a reference to Collier's own initials JC.
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