Jake Hook
Acoustic / Indie / Pop

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Jake Patrick Robert Hook, a British born singer-song writer and recording artist. He credits his musical abilities to his childhood theatre company. As a child Jake was no stranger to the stage or the film industry as he starred in 4 London musicals and appeared in the BBC drama "The Biz" - he sang backing for Meatloaf and appeared on the TOP 15 hit "I am in Love with the World," released on Columbia in 1997.

It all started with great granny's old piano. She left it to Jake in her will, not because he showed promise, but because he was the only one in the large Irish family not to thump the hell out of it!

However, Jake didn't learn to play that piano. dyslexia turned granny's sheet music into a sea of meaningless dots,but Jake knew he could play, he just had to find a way to learn. Every Saturday at kids theatre, nine-year-old Jake would lie under the baby grand, memorising how the chords were formed and how they sounded, until he could play the tunes in his head.

After his self funded debut album ‘Record on The Blag'failed to ignite sales Jake left his first label, in 2006 Jake founded his own label LBM and with financial backing has written a part autobiographical album explaining a young man's journey, falling in and out of love, finding yourself and being bullied, this album a young mans rite of passage, paved with heartache, family disputes and finding Jake.

In 2006 CBBC commissioned a song by Jake called 'Seaside Day Out', this outrated both the UK-Germany football game and primetime TV interactive content of "How To Solve A Problem Like Maria", it received an astounding 250,000 downloads in one week on the BBC interactive service.

In January 2007 Jake teamed up with singer/songwriters David Sneddon and Chris Townsend on a mini tour of five dates, releasing his 'Live Sessions Ep' to coincide with this. The Ep reached No.3 in the indiestore chart, and Jake was also featured as artist of the week,"In the final installment from our intrepid singing/songwriting trio, comes perhaps our favourite. Veering from Eighties funkatering ('Elusive You'). to gorgeous gas mark 9 balladeering ('FireFlies') without batting an eye, it is all utterly marvellous stuff."

In June 2007, Jake took on a challenge of releasing an ep in six weeks. Releasing 'Wanna'from the ep, it took the 7 digital chart by storm giving Jake his first number one. After been the fastest seller in its first week on download peaking at No.2 in the '7digital' chart SXY finally took the number one position and remained in the top 5 for a further two weeks.

Combine his good looks, his talent and a voice that is so powerful and filled with emotion, Jake Hook is a musician who sheds new light on the concept of the singer-songwriter. As for Grannys old piano, it has been by his side ever since.