Jon Snead
- Composer
Jon Erick Snead was born in Farmington, New Mexico, July 18th, 1980.
His father, Michael Snead, worked as a salesman in the oil and gas industry,
and his mother, Ramona Snead, worked in the medical field and at home.
He spent most of his life growing up in New Mexico, graduating from
Hobbs High School in Hobbs, New Mexico, and attending college at
San Juan College, in Farmington, New Mexico, where he studied
Business Administration
Snead became a student of music in 1988, attending choir for three years in public school. He began taking piano lessons at the age of ten, and guitar lessons at the age of eleven. By age thirteen, he started writing original music. Over the next ten years, he became heavily involved in writing music, film, and the arts. By the time he was 27, he began composing and recording the music that would eventually become his first major project, "Sleep Siren."
Sleep Siren started as a solo project in 2007, and took on members by 2009. The group released two albums. "The Alice E.P." a four-song album, was released October 31, 2009. In 2010, the band was inducted into the Progressive-Music Archives, and into the Progressive-Metal Archives shortly afterwards. January 1, 2010 marked the release of the band's second full length album "A World In Coma." The band has received a few accolades, some international attention, and their music was featured in "The Highlander: The Watcher" series. The group disbanded in early 2012.
Snead and his two children, Aizik Jakob and Echo Phoenix Snead, moved to Austin, Texas in 2012. He has since taken on a solo project under the name "Jakob's Echo" where Snead is heard playing all instruments, vocals, composing, and engineering the music in his studio, and then mastering his work with Grammy-Nominated engineer, Tim Gerron.
Snead became a student of music in 1988, attending choir for three years in public school. He began taking piano lessons at the age of ten, and guitar lessons at the age of eleven. By age thirteen, he started writing original music. Over the next ten years, he became heavily involved in writing music, film, and the arts. By the time he was 27, he began composing and recording the music that would eventually become his first major project, "Sleep Siren."
Sleep Siren started as a solo project in 2007, and took on members by 2009. The group released two albums. "The Alice E.P." a four-song album, was released October 31, 2009. In 2010, the band was inducted into the Progressive-Music Archives, and into the Progressive-Metal Archives shortly afterwards. January 1, 2010 marked the release of the band's second full length album "A World In Coma." The band has received a few accolades, some international attention, and their music was featured in "The Highlander: The Watcher" series. The group disbanded in early 2012.
Snead and his two children, Aizik Jakob and Echo Phoenix Snead, moved to Austin, Texas in 2012. He has since taken on a solo project under the name "Jakob's Echo" where Snead is heard playing all instruments, vocals, composing, and engineering the music in his studio, and then mastering his work with Grammy-Nominated engineer, Tim Gerron.