Jacob Collier Instagram – 10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever. I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it. The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room. From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together! JC 🫶🏼