"You only come across an artist like JACOB ELIAS once in a blue moon.
Ausnahmeerscheinung gets to the heart of the matter." David Bronner
JACOB ELIAS is touched when he is asked to assess his talent, as David Bronner was one of Austria's most prominent music producers. "It was just beautiful and surreal to hear that," says the singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in his early twenties, who took off with his debut track "Situationship" in 2023 and proved his exceptional talent.
The song about indecision when it comes to a committed relationship reached over 1.6 million streams, 650k YouTube views, number 3 in the Ö3 listener charts, number 1 on Shazam for several weeks and the top 25 in the airplay charts. "Situationship" was also nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards in the Ö3 Song of the Year category: "That was crazy - I've always dreamed of it," says JACOB ELIAS. "But I never expected it to happen with my first song."
The term "always" is no exaggeration here: when JACOB ELIAS, who grew up in the
Pinzgau, Austria, was five years old, he was given a drum set for Christmas.
drums for Christmas. "My siblings - much older than me - had a cover band that played songs by the Foo Fighters or Green Day. My sister was the guitarist, my brother was the drummer and a role model for me. I was fascinated by his instrument and started taking drum lessons quite early on." The piano came along when JACOB ELIAS was ten years old: he found their old keyboard in the cellar, the former rehearsal room, brought it into his room and learned to play it with the help of YouTube videos: "I would say that the piano became more and more my main instrument over time."
JACOB ELIAS's taste in music favors German pop, first from Mark Forster and
Glasperlenspiel: "Later, I got to know and love older German indie acts like Thees Uhlmann and Olli Schulz, and even later Jeremias, Provinz and Bruckner. Their language was much more poetic. That fascinated me."
In 12/22, David Bronner, who was involved in Conchita Wurst's ESC winning song "Rise Like A
Phoenix", who died far too suddenly in '23, signed JACOB ELIAS,
brought him together with the "Situationship" co-songwriters Julia Kautz and Lukas Hillebrand
and brought him to Sony Music. JACOB ELIAS sets himself very high goals:
"I want to become an indispensable act, an institution - in Austria, but also throughout the German-speaking world."
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