Jack Conte

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Jack Conte
Born (1984-07-12) July 12, 1984 (age 40)
San Francisco, California, United States
Genres
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Entrepreneur
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, accordion
Years active 2002–present
Associated acts Pomplamoose, Nataly Dawn, Julia Nunes, Wade Johnston, KNOWER, Louis Cole, Ben Grant, Foxtails Brigade, Danielle ate the Sandwich, Lauren O'Connell, Ryan Lerman, My Terrible Friend, Carlos Cabrera
Website Official website

Jack Conte (born July 12, 1984) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, disc-jockey, entrepreneur and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area who lives off the sale of MP3s online.[1] Conte has recorded two EPs — Sleep in Color and Nightmares and Daydreams — and released them along with the compilation VideoSongs Volume I through the iTunes Store.[2] Conte's use of Electro-Harmonix audio equipment has been featured by the company in several different videos.[3][4][5] Conte is also the co-founder of Patreon.

Early career

Conte's first notable appearance in mainstream media was when he supplied his voice for the "teenage boy" character in the popular videogame The Sims 2.[6]

YouTube Success

Conte first gained widespread attention when his video Yeah Yeah Yeah [7] was featured on YouTube's main page.[8] The video, animated in stop motion, has garnered over 913,000 views as of September 2015. The majority of his new music is released as singles posted to YouTube. These mostly take the form of "VideoSongs", a medium he defines with two rules:

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#What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)

  1. If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)

Pomplamoose

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Conte formed the band Pomplamoose with his fiancé Nataly Dawn in summer 2008.[9] The band's presence is primarily online, having only performed a handful of live shows. Nevertheless, the collaboration has garnered significant fan support. Fueled by the feature of their video Hail Mary on the main page of YouTube, Pomplamoose's channel has over 445,000 subscribers as of March 2015. The band recently produced the next studio album of Julia Nunes.

Reception

Much of Conte's work has been met with positive review, citing evocative lyrics in Sleep in Color,[8] creative delivery of his videosongs[10] and the tenacity to create his own niche in the Internet music market. However, Conte's music was reviewed less favorably by Amplifier magazine: "Hints of Conor Oberst, Radiohead, Patrick Watson, contemporary punk rock (screamo), radio power pop, and incalculable other singer songwriters are more than borrowed, making for a short mishmash of electro rock."[11]

Entrepreneurship

Conte is also the co-founder of Patreon.

Discography

Albums

  • VideoSongs Volume 1
  • VideoSongs Volume 2
  • VideoSongs Volume 3
  • VS4

Extended plays

  • Nightmares and Daydreams
  • Sleep in Color
  • Conte

Music videos

  • "Yeah Yeah Yeah"

Patreon venture

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On May 7, 2013, Conte announced the launch of a new crowdfunding venture together with cofounder Samuel Yam. The startup is "like a kickstarter for people who release stuff on a regular basis."[12][13]

References

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