had the pleasure of a chanced
encounter with this next artist during
a trip to L.A. in May 2016. I met Cori
“Fader” Jacobs on the street of Venice beach selling his CDs. He carried
a pair of headphones hooked up to
an MP3 player, allowing me to hear
two original songs of him playing the
piano. I knew then I was meeting with
talent, but what I didn’t realize was exactly whom I was talking too (sometimes happens in L.A. right?) Shortly
after returning home, I reached out
to Jacobs for help on creating music
for a song I wrote. We got into talking
about ventures and being inspired,
which has led this very charismatic
man to share in an interview!
When I reached out to Jacobs,
it must be somewhere around 11:30
PST and he’s in the studio scoring
a short film. He and his band have
an upcoming show at the end of the
month (June 2016) and enjoy groovy
arrangements that are funky and
fun, something he likes to call a little
Fun-K Jazz.
“I love originals. I
write all the time and in
every style I can. I’m never bored.”
He and the band also perform
covers to which he proudly adds he
has a pretty cool cover of Brittany
Spears’ “Toxic” (available for listeners
via his website).
Jacobs quit a corporate job
working at one of Fortune 500 companies and shares “Since I left my job
of 14 years I have never looked back
but to say ‘I should have done this a
long time ago.’ A job is a false sense of
security. You are helping someone else
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both (spiritual and natural) worlds.
His quest for spiritual elevation is
something he measures by how much
he’s grown lyrically. “On a higher level, I stop using modes and idioms and
start letting my life source take over.
Soon I don’t hear anything but anyone
listening hears it all. I’ve never been in
love like this before (and) should I feel
this with anything else then wow.”
His take on the music industry today is nothing short of love for
what remains pure. He goes as far
as to separate the words music from
industry. “ . . . Music and the industry
have always been two different things.
Any time you take what is natural
and monetize it you start to lessen
its value. It becomes cheap and you
start to copy what’s good and milk it
until you can’t get anything out of it
anymore. Then you discard it and find
something else. Music is water. Water
holds some of the most exotic creatures ever. Beautiful fish, whales, seals,
but also sharks. The good and bad are
drawn to this life force. But you must
first love the water and not what you
can obtain from the water. I think the
music industry is balancing itself out.
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who quit their job to start a business,
so they hire you, to make millions. No
one is safe. A degree is not a guarantee
of a job . . . . If you are thinking about
leaving your job make sure the conditions that you are walking into allow
you to support yourself . . . . It’s like
jumping out of a plane. Soon as you
jump . . . you FALL.” Jacobs states he
also believes although it doesn’t come
easy, it’s the universe’s job to give
an individual their desire. In other
words, what you put out there in the
pursuant of your dreams and goals
comes back to you.
The experienced artist whose
been musically inclined at least since
the age of 9, has several insightful observations to share, and it’s enough to
fill this entire article with his quotes,
which is much the case. “I knew I
wanted to make a living doing it (music) in high school. I thought I would
be in a band with Al Jarreau playing
percussion. I met him but didn’t play
in his band (LOL). . . . Every culture
from gangsters to nuns are represented by some form of sound. It’s like
we need it. I just have to know more
about it. . . . . Nothing else did this
to people
on such
a global
level.” Like
several
artists,
Jacobs
finds his
motivation from
achieving
his next
hit. He
describes
the feeling as an
experience
too beautiful not
to have in
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