Né Moriarty; born 2 August 1994) is an glish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumtalist. His music incorporates a combination of jazz with elemts from many other musical gres, and oft features extsive use of reharmonisations and close harmony. He is also known for his ergetic live performances, in which he oft conducts the audice to sing multiple-part harmonies or percussions.
In 2013, his split-scre video covers of popular songs, such as Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing, began to go viral on YouTube. In 2014, Collier signed with Quincy Jones's managemt company and began working on his one-man, audio-visual live performance vehicle, designed and built at the MIT Media Lab by B Bloomberg.
In 2016, Collier released his debut album, In My Room, which he recorded, arranged, performed and produced himself in the small back room of his family home in Finchley, North London.
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In 2018, Collier began working on Djesse, a four-volume, 50-song album featuring more than two doz artists and sembles. The first volume, which features the Metropole Orkest, Djesse Vol. 1, was released in December 2018. The second, Djesse Vol. 2, uses more acoustic instrumtation, and was released in July 2019. In 2020, Collier won Grammy Awards for his arrangemts of All Night Long (All Night) from Djesse Vol. 1 and Moon River from Djesse Vol. 2. In 2021, he won a Grammy Award for He Won't Hold You from the third volume, Djesse Vol. 3.
Collier's maternal grandfather, Derek Collier, was a violinist who also taught at the Royal Academy and performed with orchestras around the world. Jacob has said: We sing Bach chorales together as family – it's just so much fun.
At the same time, he 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 Bjamin Britt's The Turn of the Screw, the latter of which heavily influced his use and understanding of harmony.
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Collier began uploading homemade, multi-instrumtal contt to YouTube in 2011, releasing a vocal arrangemt of Pure Imagination from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and in 2013, a multi-instrumtal rdition of Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing. Collier's uploads used split scre, multitrack recordings of Collier singing each of the arrangemt's harmonies. These videos gained solid traction, with some videos—such as the aforemtioned Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing cover—receiving millions of views. His activity caught the atttion of Quincy Jones,
Around this time, B Bloomberg, a PhD studt at the MIT Media Lab, contacted Collier regarding the creation and developmt of musical hardware and software for live performance. Over the following months, he and Collier constructed a multimedia live experice.
The performance featured a circle of musical instrumts, with six simultaneous looping stations capable of simultaneous playback, backed by synced real-time 3D-captured video loops, projected onto a scre behind the instrumts, courtesy of Louis Mustill and William Young of Artists and gineers. Ctral to the show was a custom-built vocal Harmonizer instrumt that Collier designed and created with Bloomberg, which abled Collier to perform multi-voice harmonies in real-time.
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In July 2015, Beats by Dr. Dre reached out to Collier to provide the music for 'The Game Starts Here' gland Rugby World Cup campaign.
Collier recorded an a cappella version of the hymn Jerusalem for the commercial, which aired on national television before each gland match.
In late 2015, Collier began preparing his debut album In My Room, after performing with WDR Big Band in a concert in Cologne, Germany.
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He arranged, recorded and produced the album himself, playing every instrumt. He wrote eight of the elev tunes. He recorded and mixed the album over three months
And released on 1 July 2016 through the indepdt record label Membran tertainmt Group. Following the release, Collier embarked on a one-man world tour including the 2016 Montreux Jazz Festival.
In anticipation of the release, Collier launched the #IHarmU campaign through Patreon, where 100 patrons st him 15-second video clips of melodies, which he harmonised with multiple vocal parts with his multi-scre layout, and uploaded to social media. Collier received more than 130 melodies and donations, including from British jazz artist Jamie Cullum, B Folds, Herbie Hancock, and Kevin Olusola of the a cappella group Ptatonix, arranging White Christmas for them, which appeared on A Ptatonix Christmas, which won a Contemporary A Cappella Society award.
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On 22 August, Collier took part in a Quincy Jones tribute concert at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London, in which he performed his own orchestral arrangemt of his original song In The Real Early Morning with the Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jules Buckley, among other songs.
In December 2016, Collier collaborated with 150 studts at MIT to produce a 10 December live concert in Kresge Auditorium titled Imagination Off the Charts, playing alongside orchestral arrangemts of his repertoire. This residcy was the subject of a documtary film,
In February 2017, Collier won two Grammy Awards: Best Arrangemt, Instrumtal or A Cappella for the Stevie Wonder song You and I and Best Arrangemt, Instrumtal and Vocals for a cover of Flintstones.
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One month later he made his US television debut on The Tavis Smiley Show performing a rdition of You And I with jazz-gospel a cappella group Take 6.
On 10 November 2017, the album Jazz Loves Disney 2, on which Collier performs a cover of Under the Sea, was released.
While hosting masterclasses and performances with orchestras and big bands around the world, including the Metropole Orkest. On 9 July, he and Cory Hry performed again with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
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In December 2017, Collier collaborated with American Pop/R&B singer Tori Kelly to record an a cappella YouTube video cover of the Christmas song Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
In December 2017, Collier announced that the One-Man-Show's final performance would be in Rome on 18 December 2017. He discussed plans for a second album, to be recorded in 2018.
In July 2018, Collier was one of the surprise guests at Quincy Jones's 85th birthday party celebrations, at the Montreux Jazz Club.
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On 19 July, Jacob Collier and Frids took the stage for a special concert as part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Collier performed alongside the Metropole Orkest under conductor Jules Buckley, and invited Take 6, Sam Amidon, Becca Stevs, and Maalem Gnawa musician Hamid El Kasri.
Following a one-week residcy at MIT, Djesse (Vol. 1) premiered live in Kresge Auditorium on 8 December 2018. The concert featured his performance with the MIT JC Orchestra (composed of MIT and Berklee College musicians), MIT Festival Jazz semble, MIT Vocal Jazz semble, MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus, Rambax MIT (Segalese drumming semble), mother Suzie Collier and other guests from Boston and Los Angeles.
The first single of the Djesse project, With The Love in My Heart, was released on 2 November 2018. Two further singles, Ocean Wide, Canyon Deep and All Night Long, were released in late November. Djesse Vol. 1 was released in full on 7 December.
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The volume features collaborations with Voces8, Laura Mvula, Hamid El Kasri, Take 6, and his mother, Suzie Collier. The Metropole Orkest appeared on every track. Collier produced, arranged, and orchestrated the music, in addition to singing and playing various instrumts.
In January 2019, Collier began the Djesse World Tour backed by a band that included Portuguese singer and multi-instrumtalist MARO, bassist Robin Mullarkey, and drummer Christian Euman.
On 26 April 2019, Collier released the second single from the album, a cover of The Beatles' song Here Comes The Sun in collaboration with Dodie Clark. The third Vol. 2 single was released on 13 June, an a cappella arrangemt of Moon River by Hry Mancini and Johnny Mercer with over a hundred vocal contributions from family members, mtors, frids, and other collaborators.
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The fourth and final single from Djesse Vol. 2, It Don't Matter, featuring vocals of American singer-songwriter JoJo, was released on 5 July.
Djesse Vol. 2 was released on 19 July 2019, featuring cover artwork by Astrig Akseralian and further musical collaborations with Lianne La Havas, Oumou Sangaré, Chris Thile, Sam Amidon, Steve Vai, Kathryn Tickell, Becca Stevs, and MARO.
Djesse Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 each won a Grammy award at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, for All Night Long (feat. Take 6) and Moon River.
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On 29 November 2019, Collier released the first single from Djesse Vol. 3, Time Alone With You, in collaboration with Daniel Caesar.
The video premiered on YouTube on 5 December. As of 2022, it was Collier's most viewed non-live performance video on the platform.
In November 2019, Collier appeared on Coldplay's eighth studio album, Everyday Life, providing backing vocals for the tracks Cry, Cry, Cry, Everyday Life, and Church.
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On 25 March 2020, Collier released the second single from Djesse Vol. 3, In My Bones. Three further singles, All I Need, He Won't Hold You, and Running Outta Love, were released later that year, leading up to the release of the album. Djesse Vol. 3 was released in full on 14 August 2020.
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