Jacob Elias

In the artist's words:

JACOB ELIAS is touched when asked about the assessment of 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 Pinzgau, Austria, was five years old, he received a drum kit 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'staste in music favors German pop, initially by 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" and died far too suddenly in '23, signed JACOB E LIAS, brought him together with the "Situationship" co-songwriters Julia Kautz and Lukas Hillebrand and placed him with 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."

And rightly so - numerous fans in Germany have already succumbed to the addictive potential of the poetic German pop - for example at the support gigs on tour for Georg Hägele '24. His first own DE show will take place in Munich at the beginning of 2025.