About Jakob

Musician by Heart.

Jakob is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based mantra artist, producer and songwriter. Currently he is working on new recordings in the genre of mantra-music and chanting and is releasing his fourth single Gayatri / Giver of Light in collaboration with Brenda McMorrow, January 14th, 2022. The song is released through White Swan Records, a Colorado label well known for it’s high-profile yoga-inspired artists like Deva Premal.

Jakob’s entire life has revolved around music. Since his pre-teens, he has been performing professionally. He has released several albums, toured intensively and topped the charts within the pop industry as both a producer and a songwriter and with his bands The Loft and more recently, 80’s synth wave project Neon Capital.

At age twelve, Jakob forms his first band called The Rockabillies, playing rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s.  A year later, Jakob and his band record an album, Dream Girl, at Sun Studio in Memphis, TN with music legend Carl Perkins. 

A few years later, Jakob and lifelong musical companion Martin Bøge Pedersen form The Loft, and they start off producing three songs for the soundtrack of the movie Den Eneste Ene which goes double platinum. 

Following this, the band works intensively on material for their debut album and signs with Universal Music Denmark. Their first single City Of Dreams includes a sample from the song Midt om natten by Danish artist Kim Larsen. The single goes gold, reaches the top of the airplay chart as well as the dance chart and is the most played song on Danish national radio P3 that year. The video for the song is shot in New York City and nominated for a Nordic Music Award.

Their debut album No Ordinary Man also goes gold, and the album’s second single Forever becomes a massive radio hit as well.

The Loft follows with their second album Little Paul’s BLVD from which the single Kiss You Goodbye reaches gold. 

Parallel to Jakob’s music, yoga and meditation has been an integral part of his life. For the last five years he has been studying meditation, Indian philosophy, mantra music and traditional kirtan intensely with different teachers in both India, USA and Denmark and has been leading kirtan in Copenhagen on a regular basis.

As  a composer and songwriter Jakob is signed to the international publishing company Reservoir Media in New York.