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Born 1980, Jacob Armen is a musician of Armenian descent, son of noted musician Albert Armen. He plays multiple instruments but is mostly known as a drummer.

His father played music for him constantly while he was in the crib. As Jacob describes it: "At 8 months old, my father held my hand and made me feel the pulse of the rhythm. I started to tap my hand to the downbeat of music." (1) At the age of 18 months, his father had him sit behind a full drum kit for the first time. Soon after, Jacob would be joining his father in playing at the family restaurant, The Magic Lamp. At the age of 6 he was playing with the Cal State-Northridge 20 piece Jazz ensemble, and by the age of 8 had appeared on "The tonight show", ABC's "Incredible Sunday" and "Good morning America", and "Super Dave Osbourn Show" and NBC's "Today Show."(2) When he was 11, he signed with Prince, and released released his first solo album in 1993 on the artist's Warner Brothers-backed Paisley Park label (later distributed by Prince's own NPG Records after he left Warner Brothers).

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1993 	Drum Fever 	Jacob Armen 2001 	Breakthrough 	Jacob Armen

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http://www.jacobarmen.com/ http://www.youtube.com/jacobarmentv

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(1) 2006 Interview (http://www.ragazzi-music.de/armenjacob_eng.html) (2) People Magazine, February 17, 2003 (available online at http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139308,00.html) (3) JAAB Records Artist's Biography, (since deleted, retrieved via http://web.archive.org/web/20011015005714/www.jacobarmen.com/bio.html)

http://www.jacobarmen.com/