Taking his inspiration from both personal and societal currents, Jacob Miller's resonant sound and dead-on lyrics pursue an unflinching quest to bare it all - the best and worst in us. The artist's debut album, entitled Who We Are (Dogleg Music), reflects that quest.
Hailing from Miami, Florida, music was integrated into Miller's life from an early age: "There was a piano in my home when I was growing up. Actually, my dad had an entire music room where he also kept a guitar, harmonica, saxophone, clarinet, banjo and tambourine. I don't really remember when I started to play the piano. From the time I was about 3 or 4, I had a few lessons here and there, but I was always just more of an emotional player than a technical one." This formative musical grounding propelled him into the teeming diversity of the Miami milieu during his high school years at the New World School of the Arts. Since that time, Jacob has met and made music with a dramatic range of talented musicians. Currently, he has made it to the halfway point at Berklee College of Music in Boston and continues to experience life on the road.
The strength of Miller's music resides in the highly personal nature of it, a baring of his soul to us in the hopes that we reflect on our own lives and journeys: "Personal relationships are a lot more significant to me than how they may reveal themselves on the album. Every lyric holds a personal relationship in there, and cherishes some sort of love for someone in every line."
Jacob Miller's debut release entitled Who We Are (Dogleg Music) is available for purchase online and in select stores now.
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hey jacob! iv been trying to call you, but it keeps going straight to voicemail... everything good? i have much to talk about ;-) hope to hear back from you sooner than later. peace & love
Hey Jake! I got back from living in Toronto, and realized that I had a message from you on my comments from a long while ago! So now I've finally come back to miami and updating myself with your music...and let me tell you you're awesome. Let me know when you playing in Miami again this summer so I can come and finally see a show! Hope you're well! :)
hey Jacob... hope all is well, keep rockin' out... love your music, when you gonna be around Philly or Jersey...? probably not any time soon but if you are I'd def. bring some people out... good luck luv nicole
Hey Jacob! Remember me?... probably not ha. I've been off line 4 a while, but I'm back and hearin 'Ur gonna b jus fine'...well it took me back. And hey, I'm jus fine- thanx u helped pull me through!
remember that drunk conversation we had at my party about how i should make a record and what kind of music would i make? well, bizarrely, someone answered that for me and i was in the studio this morning until like 5 am... lol!! more to come!! xx
Hey the morning after the show at PS14 i became the proud owner of my very own copy of "who we are" bought it at FYE. I congratulate you on the album. It's great to see a young artist really going out there and doing it! you should be very proud of all your hard work!
hey man, come out to our show this thursday at 9pm. we're playing spike hill in williamsburg. it's on bedford avenue (take the L to bedford), just south of 7th st n. hope to see ya! - noah
