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Years active
  
2007–present

Role
  
Instrumentalist

Name
  
Jack Conte

Website
  
Official website


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Born
  
July 12, 1984 (age 39) San Francisco, California, United States (
1984-07-12
)

Occupation(s)
  
Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Entrepreneur

Instruments
  
Vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, accordion

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

Albums
  
My Big Package, VS4, Sleep in Color

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Pop punk, Independent music

Similar People
  
Nataly Dawn, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Anton Patzner, Laura Weinbach

Profiles


Music group
  
Pomplamoose (Since 2008)

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Jack Conte (; born July 12, 1984) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, disc jockey, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. He is also one half of Pomplamoose with his wife Nataly Dawn.

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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. Conte's use of Electro-Harmonix audio equipment has been featured by the company in several different videos.

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Conte is also the co-founder of Patreon.

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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.

Conte first gained widespread attention when his video Yeah Yeah Yeah was featured on YouTube's main page. The video, animated in stop motion, has garnered over 954,000 views as of August 2016. 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:

Conte formed the band Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn in mid-2008. 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.

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

Reception

Much of Conte's work has been met with positive reviews, citing evocative lyrics in Sleep in Color, creative delivery of his videosongs 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."

Personal life

Conte and Nataly Dawn became engaged in January 2016, and were married in May 2016.

Albums

  • VideoSongs Volume 1
  • Release date: 29 August 2008
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: Digital download
  • VideoSongs Volume 2
  • Release date: 15 August 2008
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: Digital download
  • VideoSongs Volume 3
  • Release date 13 July 2008
  • ShadowTree Music
  • Format: Digital download
  • VS4
  • Release date: March 23, 2011
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: CD, Digital download
  • Extended plays

  • Nightmares and Daydreams
  • Release date: May 21, 2007
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: Digital download
  • Sleep in Color
  • Release date: September 25, 2008
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: CD, Digital download
  • Conte
  • Release date: 2013
  • Label: ShadowTree Music
  • Format: Digital download
  • Music videos

  • "Yeah Yeah Yeah"
  • References

    Jack Conte Wikipedia