The six-time Grammy award-winning musician sits down with Robert Bound to discuss the release of the fourth and final instalment of his ‘Djesse’ album series, his creative process, the influence of his mother and how he transforms his audiences into choirs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The biggest thing an artist can cultivate in this world right now is trust.
If you build trust with your core audience and the people who love you and know you, the people you create with, the people you jam with, that trust builds really tactile relationships.
And it's from those kinds of relationships with fans, friends, collaborators.
That's where all the other stuff in the industry comes from.
At the end of the day, nothing else was ever real except for your relationships, that trust that you build with people.
And it's just as simple as just listening to your gut and being really you and being honest about how you present yourself and then just being fearless to see where life takes you.
This week's guest is Jacob Collier, the multitalented, multi decorated, multicolored British musical wunderkind who's had international audiences and the broader music industry enthrall to his precocious talents.
Since he released his first solo album, self produced, and on which Collier played all of his instruments back in 2016, that record in My Room laid down a significant marker of talent and ambition.
Collier has continued to turn out records that originate from that now famous titular music room in North London, but spiced them up with collaborations with a rich array of talent from all walks of musical life.
Chris Martin, Stormzy, Camilo, Brandi Carlisle, Shawn Mendes, and his mother, Susie Collier.
Name but a handful.
All genres are playfully danced between, but listeners will notice a deep seated musicality that stretches well beyond gadfly showiness to reveal Collier's lifelong love and understanding of music.
That's where his mother, Suzy, conductor, violinist and music teacher, came in from an early age.
Collier's latest multi album concept is named JC for Collier's initials and we spoke to him as he released Jesse Vol.
4 that stretches from 90s rock to k pop to choral music.
It's the sort of thing that wins you six Grammys.
Which might have come closer to the top of a biography of a 29 year old, but as you've heard, there wasn't a lot of space in which to fit it.
I'm Robert Bound and I spoke to Jacob Collier on the Big Interview.
Jacob, welcome to the Big Interview.
It's wonderful to have you on the program today.