Jacob Collier (born 2 August 1994) is a British singer, arranger, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in London, England. In 2012, his homemade split-screen video covers of popular songs, such as Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing", began to go viral on YouTube.
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. In 2014, Collier signed to Quincy Jones' management company and began working on his one-man, audio-visual live performance vehicle, designed and built at MIT in Boston.
On 1 July 2016, Collier released his debut album, In My Room, which was entirely self-recorded, arranged, performed and produced in his home in London. In February 2017, Collier was awarded two Grammys for his arrangements of "Flintstones" and "You And I", both from the album.
Collier grew up in North London, England with his parents and two younger sisters. He attended Mill Hill County High School in North London, and The Purcell School for young musicians in Bushey, Hertfordshire. His mother, Susan Collier, is a music teacher, violinist, and conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Collier's maternal grandfather, Derek Collier, was a violinist who also taught at the Royal Academy of Music and performed with orchestras around the world. His father, Patrick Moriarty, is also a talented amateur musician. Regarding the role music plays within his family, Collier says, "We sing Bach chorales together as family – it's just so much fun." Collier is of part Chinese descent, through his maternal grandmother, Leila Wong.
Collier was also a child actor in film under the name Jacob Moriarty. In 2004 he portrayed Tiny Tim in Arthur Allan Seidelman's A Christmas Carol. At the same time, young Collier was also immersing himself in classical music, gaining performing experience as a treble singer performing 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 Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely", "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.
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