Who is Jake?
Greta Van Fleet’s Jake Kiszka is a band member. Greta Van Fleet is a Michigan-based band, and he is the band’s founder and guitarist (GFV). Another title for him is Jacob Kiszka.
Jake established this band alongside his twin brother Joshua Kiszka & younger brother Samuel Kiszka in 2012, and they were joined a year later by drummer Kylie Hauck. Joshua Kiszka is the band’s lead vocalist, while Samuel Kiszka is the bassist. Kylie Hauck left the group in 2013 and was replaced by Daniel Wagner.
Weight and height
Greta Van Fleet member Jake Kiszka has long hair and dresses comfortably in a t-shirt and thin pants. His hair is straight and dark. He stands 5’7′′ tall and weighs 62 kilograms.
Family of Jake Kiszka
It is no secret that Jake Kiszka is from a musical family. His father, a chemist from Michigan with a collection of musical instruments, loved 1970s rock music. The harmonica used to be one of his favorite instruments. He enjoyed the music with his mother, Karen Kiszka, a science teacher.
Joshua Kiszka (Josh), his twin brother, has a voice similar to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. His younger brother, Sam Kiszka (also the keyboardist for GFV), plays bass.
Biography/Early Years
Jake Kiszka was born in the United States on April 23, 1996, in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Another name for him is Jacob Kiszka.
Jake, born together into a musical family, started playing with his father’s instruments when he was three years old and started playing guitar when he was six years old. He continued to hone his guitar talents and established the Greta Van Fleet band at 16.
The band’s guitarist, Jake Kiszka, relishes pounding out rough riffs to build the mood for classical, ambient music. His band, Greta Van Fleet, is influenced and inspired by Led Zeppelin, and so these Michigan kids are recovering 1970s music.
Jake also contributes to the band’s background vocals. Indeed, he and the band made their professional debut with “Highway Tune,” which reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. Jake has shared the stage with Ozzy Osbourne at the Louder Than Life festival.
Family
Jake was born into a musical household. His father was indeed a biochemist from Michigan who was a fan of 1970s rock music and also had a musical instrument collection.
He used to have a lot of fun with the harmonica. Karen Kiszka, his mother, and a science teacher appreciated the music.
His twin brother, Joshua Kiszka (Josh), has a vocal style comparable to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. His younger brother, Samuel Kiszka (Sam), plays bass and is also the pianist for GFV.
Education
He graduated from Frankenmuth High School & Delta College and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Career
Jake Kiszka, his twin brother Joshua Kiszka, and younger brother Samuel Kiszka formed this band in 2012, and drummer Kylie Hauck followed them a year later.
Joshua Kiszka is the band’s lead vocalist, while Samuel Kiszka is the bassist. Kylie Hauck left the group in 2013 and was replaced by Daniel Wagner.
In March 2017, guitarist Jake Kiszka said that the primary guitar riff for “Highway Tune” was developed in 2010, and it was re-released as a single. On February 28, 2014, a live EP was filmed in one take and published on June 7, 2014.
From the Fires and Black Smoke Rising (2016–2017)
On January 17, 2016, the Jake band performed “Highway Tune” as a live performance on the Showtime show Shameless. On March 31, 2017, the band’s first official single, the complete recorded version of “Highway Tune,” was published on iTunes.
On April 2, 2017, the song “Highway Tune” became available on-demand on iTunes. On April 18, 2017, Loudwire exclusively premiered the music video for “Highway Tune.”
The band’s debut EP, Black Smoke Rising, was founded on April 21, 2017. On April 21, 2017, Greta Van Fleet was chosen as Apple Music’s new artist of the week. The band went on the road with The Struts in May 2017.
In October 2017, Jake’s band won The award for Best New Artist at the Loudwire Music Awards. In addition to the following tracks from Black Smoke Rising, From the Fires introduces additional recordings “Edge of Darkness” and “Talk on the Street,” as well as versions of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and Fairport Convention’s “Meet on the Ledge.”
Al Sutton and Marlon Young, this very same duo who collaborated on Black Smoke Rising, produced the four new tracks at Rustbelt Studios at Royal Oak, Michigan, in September 2017. In October 2017, the band released “Safari Song” as a single.
Army Anthem of Peace (2018–2019)
Jake Kiszka’s band was playing at Elton John’s Academy Award Party on March 4, 2018, at the host’s request. For his “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” and Greta Van Fleet’s “You’re the One,” John appeared on stage with them.
During the presentation, Elton John instructed the band to make their performance and dress more dramatic and showy. On July 26, the band made its broadcast debut on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, performing “When The Curtain Falls,” the first song from their forthcoming first album.
Their debut album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, was launched on October 19, 2018. The album’s title, “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” was motivated by the title of a poem, so according to Josh Kiszka.
With 80,000 copies sold in its first week, it was the best-selling album in the United States. It was introduced in chapter three on the Billboard 200 when album-equivalent units were adequately considered.
The Battle of Garden’s Gate (from 2020 to the present)
On October 9, 2020, Jake Kiszka’s band released a new album, “My Way, Soon,” complemented by a music video that the band shot, edited, and directed.
The song will be included on the band’s upcoming second album, which was inspired by the band’s preceding three years of touring and how it opened their eyes, according to Wagner: “We realized that when born and raised, we had been protected by a lot of things, we were unconscious of a lot of things.”
