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 like Isn’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...