Jacob Collier

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jacob Collier
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Aug 2, 1994(1994-08-02)
Age	30
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Jacob Collier Biography

Jacob Collier is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on August 2, 1994 in London, England, United Kingdom. Genre- blending multi-instrumentalist who has gathered over 650,000 subscribers for his acapella and instrumental arrangements on YouTube.

He is best known for covering Stevie Wonder songs. He also provided the voice of young Mozart in an audiobook and performed in Mozart’s Magic Flute with ENO at the London Coliseum in 2007.

In 2004 he portrayed Tiny Tim in Arthur Allan Seidelman’s A Christmas Carol, being credited as Jacob Moriarty. 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 is a self-declared autodidact. He began uploading homemade, multi- instrumental content to YouTube in 2011, releasing, among others, vocal arrangements of “Pure Imagination”, from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and in 2013, a multi-instrumental rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing”. His activity caught the attention of Quincy Jones, who flew Collier out to the Montreux Jazz Festival where he met with him and Herbie Hancock.

He was born in London, England, and into a house full of musicians.

Jacob Collier Net Worth

Jacob Collier is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacob Collier 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He gained experience as an actor and a singer, traveling to Budapest to play Tiny Tim in the Hallmark film adaptation of A Christmas Carol and later performing in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in several countries.

He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music to study Jazz Piano.

Jacob Collier (born 2 August 1994) is an English singer, arranger, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in London, England. Collier’s style fuses elements of jazz, a cappella, groove, folk, electronic music, classical music, gospel, soul and improvisation, and often features extreme use of reharmonisation.

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Who is Jacob Collier Dating?

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In 2015, Collier’s debut live solo show was completed and began touring Europe and the US. The performance featured a circle of musical instruments, with six simultaneous looping stations capable of simultaneous playback, backed by synced real-time 3D-captured video loops, projected onto a screen behind the instruments, courtesy of Louis Mustill and William Young of Artists and Engineers. Central to the One-Man Show was a custom-built vocal “Harmonizer” instrument which Collier designed and created with Bloomberg, which enabled Collier to perform multi-voice harmonies in real-time. The debut performance of this show was held at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. A few weeks later, Collier opened for Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea with the One-Man-Show at the 2015 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Facts & Trivia

Jacob Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jacob Collier celebrates birthday on August 2 of every year.

In February 2016, Collier was featured on Snarky Puppy’s album, Family Dinner – Volume 2. Then, 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 arrangement of his original song, ‘In The Real Early Morning’, with the Metropole Orkest, under the baton of Jules Buckley, amongst other songs.

How did Jacob Collier get famous?

Hailing from north London, he first found fame after sharing his music covers on YouTube in 2012. Collier is known for his energetic tours and went viral on TikTok in April 2022 after he transformed his audience into a mass choir.

What is Jacob Collier vocal range?

Collier has a voice like no other, with an impeccable range of more than two octaves. He can divide an interval into an arbitrary number of units and sing them accurately like it’s no big deal.

How did Jacob Collier learn music?

Growing up, Jacob had no formal knowledge of chords or how to read music. He just tugged on strings and tapped on any surface he could find until he found his own original sound. Eventually, Jacob would learn guitar, piano, bass guitar, and many more. But perhaps his favorite instrument is his voice.

What genre is Jacob Collier?

R&B/Soul

Who has the most Grammy?

RankArtistAwards
1| Georg Solti| 31
2| Quincy Jones| 28
3| Chick Corea| 27
4| Pierre Boulez| 26