Jake Shortall

It's always nice to see what former Libera members are doing now. While trying to identify the boys in the Luminosa picture, I found some information about Jake Shortall. He was in Libera from 2002-2005, sang on the 2004 Free CD and the 2005 Visions CD, and performed in concerts in the UK, Japan and Korea.

2002 - Jake is on the right next to Joe Platt.

In this picture Jake is behind Michael Horncastle.

Jake is now 19 years old and does or did go to the Brit School for Performing Arts. In this YT video he is playing keyboards. I'm not sure who the 2 adult men are - faculty, talent scouts??? And is that a very tall Joe Platt in the audience at 2:04?



He was also a member of a 4-man band called Perfect People. He did keyboards and vocals. I'm not sure if they're still working together anymore. You can see their rather inactive MySpace page here.  I searched YouTube and found several older videos. Here's a live version of "What You're Told" from March 2009. Jake is the keyboard player with a green t-shirt on.



I rather like this recorded version of "What You're Told" from October 2009 better.



                           Jake is on the left in this picture.

I can't find anything more recent on him. He may still be in school. He's very talented, so it should be interesting to see what else he does.

Update: Thank you to Vivere for commenting on this post and letting us know that "Jake did attend The BRIT School WITH Joseph Platt. That was Joe with the onlookers at 2:04. As far as Perfect People goes, they're not performing at the moment, but Jake by himself is a Freelance Pianist/Singer and has even performed at the House of Commons. Both Jake and Joe graduated from The BRIT School back in 2009."

Good for Jake! That's just awesome and brill! (my new favorite word!) :D