BIOGRAPHY

I'm not from this world - I arrived sometime in the 80's when my SAT NAV went on the blink. I crash landed in London, England..

I found a nice family to move in with - and they had a lovely dog, who used to like chasing butterflies.

I've lived here ever since, because my spacecraft runs on a fuel that you guys don't have and I fucked the engine up by trying diesel and i'd still have to pay the congestion charge.

Jake Hook is a Londoner through and through, born in Camden, he grew up in North London (Southgate - famous for Amy Winehouse, Rachel Stevens and Jake?) with his brother, Irish mother and English father. At the age of 8 Jake found music at the ChickenShed theatre company - and quickly became no stranger to the stage.

Musically speaking it all started with Great Granny's piano. She left it to Jake in her will, not because he showed musical prowess, but he was the only one in the family who didn't thump the hell out of it.

However Jake didn't learn to play the piano traditionally, Dyslexia turned sheet music into a meaningless sea of dots, which Jake would join together to draw the face of his music teacher (he wasn't much of an artist either!) - She eventually washed her hands of him.

He knew he could play and the nine year old Jake would sit, Saturday mornings under the theatre's baby-grand, memorizing how the chords were formed and how they sounded, until he too could play the tunes in his head.

Out of this came a stripped, raw and sensitive musicality, unconventional in its roots yet fresh in its presence. His first recorded output came in the shape of an album called ‘Record on The Blag’ containing 17 original tracks. Literally everything was blagged (got for free) including: The entire music video for the first single, (recorded at Elstree Film Studios no less!) a documentary made about Jake, the studio time and all the musicians. In his promotional duties for this album Jake travelled Europe extensively, toured and performed with Jameila, Jenny Frost, The Cheeky Girls, Phixx, Meatloaf, Cliff Richard and Billy Ocean.

In 2006 Jake founded his own label LBM and with financial backing sourced from around the world and embarked on an autobiographical album - a young man’s rite of passage. Paved with heartache, family disputes and finding the man, this album ‘The Butterfly Observations’ was dubbed ‘the torch song’ album of the new age, the debut single from the album ‘Elusive You’ was released and charted in several territories, Whist promoting the album the piano man became a bit of regular fixture on the London acoustic scene, playing a number of tours and charity events.

Recently Jake has found himself writing, arranging and producing for The Soldiers (Warner Brothers) - Jake co-wrote the first two singles: Coming Home and A Soldier's Christmas Letter, their album went Platinum within 3 weeks of release. Jake also worked with classical pop super group Blake (EMI) , New Zealand's beautiful Elizabeth Marvelly (EMI) and the ever present 60's icon: Beryl Marsden (LBM)

Jake still lives in North London, working almost entirely on writing and producing for projects and is about to unveil a very exciting business deal with one of the world largest publishers.

 As for Great Grannys old piano, it has been by his side ever since.

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