Jacob Richard is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, recording mixing & mastering engineer based in Sydney.
Entirely self-taught, he has spent more than a decade developing every stage of his craft.
from the first chord and arrangement to the final mix and master. His music moves between intimacy and scale, tenderness and conflict, loss and renewal.
For Jacob, songwriting and recording are not separate disciplines but one continuous process:
a way of giving form to experiences that are difficult to explain any other way.
the known
22-year-old Australian artist
Six albums and 72 released songs since 2022
Writes, performs, produces, records, mixes and masters his own work
Releases through Mandatory Music and Blue Lane Records
the unknown
i believe people are capable of far more than they are often given credit for.
we are capable of grief, wonder, sacrifice, forgiveness, connection, meaning, and love. we are capable of holding contradictory truths. we are capable of growth.
yet many of the systems that shape modern life reward speed over reflection, familiarity over discovery, and distraction over understanding.
i am not interested in fighting those systems.
i am interested in testing a possibility
that music can move at the pace of the modern world while still asking something deeper of us.
that popularity and depth are not opposites.
that a song can meet people where they are and still invite them somewhere further.
i do not know if that is possible.
i intend to spend my life finding out.