Jakob Rabitsch is a 3-time grammy-nominated, platinum selling music producer, composer and artist.
Born into a musical family, in Vienna, Austria, Jakob Rabitsch has been surrounded by music from the very beginning. After starting to take classical piano lessons at the age of ten, he soon joined his first band at the age of eleven.
When he was fourteen, he attended the only music high school in Vienna, the Musikgymnasium Wien. With the school’s choir, he got the chance to perform in the historical Musikverein concert hall on an annual basis in the years 2007-2011. At the age of fifteen, he delved into the world of jazz, which left its mark on much of his musical identity, and later works.
In Fall 2012, he started studying “Contemporary Songwriting and Production” with a minor in “Writing for TV and New Media” at Berklee College Of Music as a scholarship recipient, graduating summa cum laude in 2016.
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After moving to Los Angeles, where Jakob worked as an intern for legendary film composer James Newton Howard, he was hired as a staff composer for advertising music house Butter Music + Sound, scoring ad campaigns for companies such as Hyatt, Hyundai, Toyota, Amazon, Pepto Bismol, Cartier, Dom Perignon, Nina Ricci, or Airwick. He then became Butter’s Creative Director in Berlin, Germany.
Jakob Rabitsch's range of musical endeavors remained broad. He has provided scores and arrangements for Austrian TV productions Tatort and Dancing with the Stars.
Since 2016, he has been receiving exceptional commercial and critical success, as well as industry-wide recognition as a music producer under the name Yakob. He was a writer, instrumentalist and producer on R&B artist 6lack's album FREE 6LACK (Interscope/LVRN), being credited on several of the tracks. The album reached No. 1 on the iTunes R&B/Soul album charts, as well as No. 8 on the R&B Billboard album charts. It was certified Gold for selling over 500,000 units and was nominated for a Grammy award for 'Best Urban Contemporary Album' at the 2018 Grammy awards.
His work with 6lack continued, as Yakob went on to function as executive producer on 6lack’s sophomore album East Atlanta Love Letter (Sept. 2018) which debuted on #3 of the US Billboard 200, selling 77,000 units in its first week. He produced and co-wrote 7 of the 14 songs one the album. He was a co-producer on the track Pretty Little Fears (feat. J. Cole) alongside world renowned producer T-Minus, which was nominated for a Grammy award for ‘Best Rap/Sung Performance’ at the 2019 Grammy Awards, and was certified platinum.
Since then, he’s signed a publishing deal with Stellar Songs/Warner Chappell, and has continued to work with many internationally acclaimed artists, such as SZA, Future, J. Cole, Lauv, Gallant, UMI, Giveon and many more.
Most recently, he’s received his third Grammy nomination for the 63rd Grammy Awards, held on January 31st 2021, as Giveon’s album “Take Time” is nominated for Best R&B Album.