Interview: Musician Jacob Collier On Making Everyday Sounds Into Songs

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

English composer, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier first gained attention on YouTube in 2012, and since then he's signed to Quincy Jones' record label, won two Grammys and released three albums. The 25-year-old's music is a mix of jazz, neo-soul and funk. He and Sam Sanders talked about his upcoming work, his four-album project, 'Djesse' and using everyday sounds to make songs.

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0:00.0	Did you plan on belting anything or is it gonna be real?
0:02.0	Sit it out!
0:02.0	That's the loudest part, good.
0:04.0	Beautiful, can you?
0:05.0	One more...
0:06.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Oh!
0:07.0	Oh!
0:08.0	Great, now let's figure out this keyboard thing real quick.
0:09.0	My guest, this episode, has music in his bones.
0:10.0	Even his mic checks can give you chills.
0:11.0	That is him, they are humming, strumming his guitar, sound checking with our engineer, Josh Newell.
0:12.0	For this interview, this episode, I asked my very musical guest to start with a song.
0:15.0	I was just thinking about what song to play and I've come to the conclusion that I'm gonna play a song called Make Me Cry,
0:19.0	which is a song by myself, taken from my latest album which is called Jesse Volume 2.
0:21.0	Today, the music and mission of Jacob Collier.
0:26.0	Binda...
0:32.0	Mmm, mmm, mmm.
0:37.0	I am Sam Sanders, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:41.0	It's in a lot of love, it's in a lot of love, it's in a lot of love, it's in a lot of love.
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