Jacob Collier is a Genre-blending multi-instrumentalist, English singer, arranger, composer, and producer. He is best known for covering Stevie Wonder songs. Jacob is renowned for fusing several music genres and for his liberal use of reharmonization. He is a Grammy Awards winner, including Best Arrangement and Instrumental or A Cappella for the Stevie Wonder song You and I and Best Arrangement Instrumental and Vocals for a cover of Flintstones in February of 2017. He is also best known for being the son of Music professor and violinist Susan Collier.
What Is The Net worth Of Jacob Colier?
Jacob Colier has an estimated earning of $5.1K - $80.9K per month, and he has an estimated yearly earning of $60.7K - $970.5K. Jacob has an estimated net worth of $24k in 2019, $10k in 2020, and $12.6 k in 2021.
In Arthur Allan Seidelman's A Christmas Carol, Jacob portrayed Tiny Tim, being credited as Jacob Moriarty in 2004. Collier was performing as a treble singer in classical roles as one of the three boys in Mozart's The Magic Flute in the same year.
Collier received the ABRSM Gold Medal for the country's highest mark for his grade eight singing result in 2008.
Jacob began uploading homemade, multi-instrumental content to YouTube in 2011. He released vocal arrangements of Pure Imagination from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He did a multi-instrumental rendition of Stevie Wonder's Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing in 2013. After that, he gained Quincy Jones's attention, who flew Collier out to the Montreux Jazz Festival. Jacob met Herbie Hancock at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
From 2014 to 2015, Collier constructed a multimedia live experience in collaboration with Ben Bloomberg. Ben is a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab. Collier launched a live show touring Europe and the US in 2015. The show was debuted at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. After a week, Collier opened for Hancock and Chick Corea at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2015.
He recorded a cappella version of the well-known hymn Jerusalem for the England Rugby World Cup campaign commercial, which aired on national television before each England match in 2015.
After performing with WDR Big Band in a concert in Cologne, Germany, in 2015, Collier began preparing his debut album In My Room. Jacob self-prepared, produced, and recorded that album in three months, which is the combination of every instrument, eight of the eleven tunes. The album was released on 1 July 2016 through the independent record label Membran Entertainment Group.
He launched the #IHarmU campaign through Patreon. Patreon is a crowdfunding site for content creators, where $100 patrons sent him 15-second video clips of melodies. Jacob harmonized the patrons with multiple vocal parts with his well-known multi-screen layout and demonstrated his creative process on 31 October 2017 by uploading it to his social media platforms.
#IHarmU helped Collier received more than 130 melodies and donations, including from British jazz artist Jamie Cullum, Ben Folds, Herbie Hancock, and Kevin Olusola. This project won a Contemporary A Cappella Society award.
Collier was featured on Snarky Puppy's album, Family Dinner - Volume 2, in February 2016. He took part in a Quincy Jones tribute concert at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London on 22 August 2016. He performed his own orchestral arrangement of his original song, In The Real Early Morning, with the Metropole Orkest.
In December 2016, Collier collaborated with 150 students to produce a 10 December live concert, Imagination Off the Charts.
Jacob made his US television debut on The Tavis Smiley Show, performing a rendition of You And I with jazz-gospel in March 2017. He also recomposed Samsung's signature ringtone, Over The Horizon, for the new Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+. Collier also helped score DreamWorks 2017 film, The Boss Baby, with composer Hans Zimmer.
Between 1 July 2015 and 18 December 2017, Collier toured internationally with his One-Man-Show. Jacob and Cory Henry performed again with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley at the North Sea Jazz Festival on 9 July 2017.
Collier starred as a surprise guest at Quincy Jones' 85th birthday party celebrations at the Montreux Jazz Club in July 2018.
Along with his friends, Jacob Collier took the stage for a special concert as part of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 19 July. On 29 October 2018, He announced a new four-volume, 50-song musical project, titled Djesse.
The first single of the Djesse project, With The Love in My Heart, was released on 2 November. Ocean Wide, Canyon Deep, and All Night Long were also single released in late November 2018. The volume features collaborations with Voces8, Laura Mvula, Hamid El Kasri, Take 6, and his mother, Suzie Collier.
Collier began the Djesse World Tour in January 2019. He was backed by a band, including the Portuguese multi-instrumentalist Maro, bassist Robin Mullarkey, and drummer Christian Euman.
Make Me Cry (12 April 2019), Here Comes The Sun (26 April 2019), Moon River (13 June 2019), It Don't Matter (5 July 2019) are the released second, third, fourth, and final volume 2 of Jacob's Djesse project.
He also appeared on three songs on Coldplay's eighth studio album, Everyday Life, in November 2019. He continued touring the world in 2020, announcing Djesse World Tour dates in Europe and North America for spring 2020.
Jacob Collier singing a song with Coldplay in Los Angeles (©:Instagram/ Jacob Collier)
Collier traveled some of the states of the USA. Vienna, Brussels, Brno, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Tel Aviv, Milan, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela are some of the cities where he visited in EU and UK.
On 1 January 2021, he released a voice memo recording of an original song, The Sun Is In Your Eyes, recorded in 2019.
He won two Grammy Awards, including Best Arrangement and Instrumental or A Cappella for the Stevie Wonder song You and I and Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals for a cover of Flintstones in February of 2017.
Who Is Jacob Collier?
Genre-blending multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier was born on 2 August 1994 in London, England. He was born to parents Patrick Moriarty and Susan Collier.
Jacob was born into a family of musicians. His father, Patrick, is an Amateur Musician, whereas his mother, Susan, is a Violinist, Music Professor, and Music Conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Jacob has two siblings, Sophie Collier, Ella Collier.
Jacob attended Mill Hill County High School in North London and The Purcell School for Young Musicians in Bushey, Hertfordshire. He has studied jazz piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
Concerning his physical appearance, Jacob stands at the height of 5 feet and 9 inches (175cm) and weighs around 65 kg (143.5 Ibs).
Who Is The Girlfriend of Jacob Collier?
Jacob has not revealed any information about his relationship status. He is currently single and doesn't have a lady love in his life.
As reported by Meaww, in 2016, Jacob said Dating Celebs that;
'If you like someone you should just ask that person out for a date.'
Jacob has tweeted on 17 October 2017, sharing the picture of him with the wallpaper of Legge Bail captioning;
'I think she likes me.'
It can be easily guessed that Jacob is focusing on his career than on a relationship.