Quincy Jones emailed saying, ‘Hey man, I need to have a word’: how Jacob Collier made In My Room

‘Stevie Wonder and Prince played all the instruments on their albums – but in recording studios. There wasn’t an instruction manual for doing it all in a back room at home. And then it won two Grammys’ I grew up as one of the YouTube generation, with the idea that you could create your own fanbase by making videos. So when I was about 17, I filmed myself in our family back room doing Stevie Wonder covers likeIsn’t She Lovely, made up of six layered vocal parts sung by different versions of me, or Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing, where I played various instruments.Continue reading...