is an international “Country Pop/ Zonafolk” recording and performing artist based in Tucson, Arizona with a musical degree in classical guitar and education. He performed for over 6 years as a jazz saxophonist until he picked up the guitar and started singing in 2003, while spending a year in New Jersey.

In 2006 he enrolled in the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona. In 2008, Jacob then began his professional career as the lead singer of the indie rock group, Race You There. He has since been featured on NPR and TV, and has had song placements with FOX, FORD, ESPN, & Codeschool. 

Jacob has played multiple festivals and tours across the United States, and has released seventeen records in the genres of blues rock, indie-shoegaze, country/folk pop, deep house, progressive house, organic house, americana and folk since 2008 with the groups Mason, Burning West, HYTS, and Roll Acosta. He has also collaborated and released music with both Where The Heart Is Records and MIR Records, along with David Hohme, Sasheen, Jody Wisternoff, Max and Nim, Dustin Nantais, and Desert Raven.

Performing across the Southwest, his most popular local releases are ‘Desert Sounds’ and ‘Saint Corazón’ about Arizonan culture and the Sonoran Desert. Jacob is all about connecting with people of all ages and has been called the human jukebox, singing in any genre, in up to four different languages, and uniting crowds with a deep love for music, and the culture and community of the Southwest.