Jesse Cook
Jesse Cook never planned to become a musician. “If you had asked me at age 22, I would have said that I would never, never make music for the public,” he said. “I would have told you that the public is much too fickle; they may love you one minute and forget you the next. Well, it turns out I did the thing I said I’d never do, and somehow, it’s worked out.” Indeed, it has. The Canadian guitarist has received Acoustic Guitar magazine’s coveted Player’s Choice Silver Award, 11 Juno Award nominations and one win, a Gemini Award and, most impressively, 10 platinum and gold studio albums. Since launching his career with 1995’s Tempest, he has blazed an incredible trail as a guitar virtuoso, composer, producer, arranger, and, more recently, filmmaker and cultural ambassador. The seeds of the career, he never was going to have, were planted while he was still in school. As a child, he was introduced to flamenco while spending summers at his father’s home in the south of France.
