THE COLLECTIVE

"Why I stuck with singing? I just wanted to see how far I could go with it..."

"I grew up in Regina..."

"I think my biggest musical influence was my mum..."

"I saw in grade 8 that choir was an elective and I thought, 'well, it’ll make my mum happy...'"

"My dad was an Anglican minister, so when I was 3 or 4 years old, I was a boy soprano in the church choir..."

"My mom would always have Messiah on at Christmastime, we just sang a lot at home..."

"The choir teacher at my middle school would say, ‘keep singing, Jake, keep singing...'"

“I got a trumpet when I was pretty young, because we thought it would be nice for me to play the melody..."

"My mom got a job as a Church Music Director when I was 4..."

“My paternal grandfather was really supportive of my music education..."

"So when I was 5, I would play my parents’ Christmas records, and I just started imitating what I heard..."

"I had my first voice lesson when I was 10. I clearly remember just bursting into tears..."

“I grew up in southern Idaho..."