Jazz Articles about Jacob Collier

Jacob Collier's First Interview: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by Leo Sidran
January 7, 2025

In 2013, after having posted a series of videos recorded in his family home in North London of himself singing a cappella arrangements of classic--yet sometimes obscure--songs on YouTube, a critical mass began to form around Jacob Collier. His videos of Stevie Wonder's “Isn't She Lovely" and “Don't You Worry Bout A Thing" were passed around by musicians and music enthusiasts and by 2014 he was being managed by Quincy Jones and traveling around the world. He was one of ...