Jack Garratt
Born on 11 October 1991 in Little Chalfont, United Kingdom, Jack Robert Garratt attended St Clement Danes School before going on to build a career in music as a singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Garratt works across several genres, including trip hop, electronica, alternative R&B, and indie pop. He operates within the broader pop music world while taking on multiple professional roles — writing, composing, producing, and performing. His work is conducted in English, and he holds British citizenship.
As a record producer as well as a performer, Garratt takes on responsibilities that extend beyond singing and playing. His work as a multi-instrumentalist means he brings a hands-on approach to his music across more than one discipline. These roles — singer, songwriter, composer, and producer — sit alongside each other throughout his career.
The range of genres Garratt has worked in, from trip hop and electronica to alternative R&B and indie pop, reflects the breadth of his activity as a musician. His educational background at St Clement Danes School in the United Kingdom feeds into a career that draws on songwriting and production in equal measure, with his British citizenship and birth in Little Chalfont in 1991 marking the starting point of a working life spent across several corners of contemporary pop music.
Quotes by Jack Garratt
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.
Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.
Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.