Justin Sobers

Infobox musical artist
Name = Justin Sobers


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Background = non_performing_personnel
Birth_name = Hollis Justin Sobers
Alias = z
Born = birth date and age|1981|1|16
Flagicon|USA Belleville, New Jersey
Instrument = drums, guitar, piano, trumpet, alto saxophone
Occupation = composer, sound designer, arranger, orchestrator, A1/2
URL = [http://www.zalai.com/ Z,WØRK'S]

Hollis Justin Sobers (January 16, 1981) is an African-American composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. He is the lead composer for the video game-based fan film " [http://www.legendofzeldaseries.com/main.php?page=fanmovie.html THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: The Hero of Time] " and is the composer and sound designer for an upcoming psychological thriller independent film by Mikal Wazeerud-Din. Sobers is currently composing the music for "HEROES: The Mobile Game". Recent work of his can be heard in a television commercial for Full Tilt Poker and on THE ANGRY Video Game Nerd's DVD.

Biography

Sobers was born in Belleville, New Jersey to Hollis Joseph Sobers and Ann Lois Sobers. Sobers, who has an older sister, Hollann Joli, grew up in Convent Station, New Jersey, where his parents moved to months after he was born.

Education

Justin attended [http://www.assumptionnj.org/ Assumption School] —a Catholic school located in Morristown, New Jersey—until the sixth grade. He then transferred to the public Morris School District and attended [http://www.frelinghuysenmiddleschool.org/ Frelinghuysen Middle School] and Morristown High School. After graduating from high school in 1999, he attended Hofstra University in the Village of Hempstead, New York for one semester because his first-choice school, Berklee College of Music, did not have any on-campus housing at the time. Sobers was able to transfer to Berklee for the spring 2000 semester, but due to his less-than-stellar entry audition, he was only admitted into the diploma program—unable to declare a major unless he sustained a GPA above 3.0. Eventually, he was accepted into the degree program, declared his major, and in 2003, graduated and received his Bachelor's degree in film scoring.

Trivia

* Justin has active absolute pitch.
* Justin is related to the knighted West Indies cricketer Garfield Sobers. They are second cousins once removed.
* While he was in nursery school, Justin occasionally suffered from a mild stuttering impediment.

External links

;Official
* [http://www.zalai.com/ Z,WØRK'S]

;Film
* [http://www.cinemassacre.com/Movies/Nes_Nerd.html THE ANGRY Video Game Nerd]
* [http://www.legendofzeldaseries.com/main.php?page=fanmovie.html "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: The Hero of Time"]

;Television
* [http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/ FULL Tilt POKER]

;Game
* " [http://www.somoga.com/games/yukimatsuri/ Yuki Matsuri] "

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DATE OF BIRTH=January 16, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH=Belleville, New Jersey
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