COLLIER, JACOB - DJESSE VOL. 4

Jacob Collier (born August 2nd, 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. Since then, he has attracted a worldwide following, accumulating tens of millions of views across multiple social media platforms. Collier's style fuses elements of jazz, a cappella, groove, folk, funk, pop, electronic music, classical music, gospel, soul, and improvisation, and often features extreme use of reharmonization. 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 July 1st, 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. On October 29th, 2018, Collier announced his plans to release a 4-volume, 40-song project called Djesse. Each volume of Djesse would represent a different part of the day. The 1st volume of Djesse was released on December 7th, 2018, with 9 tracks. The album featured Metropole Orkest across many of its songs and included artists like Laura Mvula, Hamid El Kasri, Suzie Collier, and Take 6. The track "All Night Long" won the award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. The 2nd volume of Djesse was released on July 19th, 2019, with 16 tracks. The album explores a mix of jazz fusion and folk sounds. One of the most popular songs of the album is his cover of "Moon River", which won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. Featured artists include Kathryn Tickell, Sam Amidon, Lianne La Havas, MARO, Becca Stevens, Chris Thile, JoJo, Dodie, Oumou Sangaré, and Steve Vai. The 3rd volume of Djesse was released on August 14th, 2020, with 12 tracks. There is a notable influence of EDM and R&B in this album, with artists featured such as Jessie Reyez, T-Pain, Kimbra, Tank and the Bangas, Daniel Caesar, Mahalia, Ty Dolla Sign, Kiana Ledé, Tori Kelly, and Rapsody. The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, and the track "He Won't Hold You" won the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. The 4th and final volume of Djesse was released on February 29th, 2024, with 16 tracks and 5 bonus tracks included in the deluxe edition. The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, and the track "Bridge over Troubled Water" won Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. The 4th volume (deluxe edition) includes a great array of artists: Willow Smith, Brandi Carlile, Remi Wolf, Lindsey Lomis, Lawrence, Michael McDonald, Madison Cunningham, Chris Thile, Anoushka Shankar, Varijashree Venugopal, Camilo, Shawn Mendes, Stormzy, Kirk Franklin, Lizzy McAlpine, John Mayer, Aespa, Chris Martin, Chika, D Smoke, Sho Madjozi, Yelle, Kanyi Mavi, Metropole Orkest, Suzie Collier, Steve Vai, Voces8, Emily King, and The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices. Between Djesse Vol. 3 and Djesse Vol. 4, Collier released "Piano Ballads (Live From The Djesse World Tour 2022)" which included live improvisational covers of numerous songs. On October 10th, Collier released "The Light For Days", an 11 song album which he recorded in 4 days. This album focused only on Colliers voice and a 5-string guitar. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.