Justin Sobers

Justin Sobers
Background information
Birth name	Hollis Justin Sobers
Also known as	z
Born	January 16, 1981 Belleville, New Jersey
Occupation(s)	composer, arranger, orchestrator, A1, A2
Instrument(s)	drums, guitar, piano, trumpet, alto saxophone
Website	Z,WØRK'S

Hollis Justin Sobers (January 16, 1981) is an African-American composer and audio engineer. He is the lead composer for the video game-based fan film 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 also composing music for a mobile phone port of Yuki Matsuri.

[edit] Biography

Sobers was born in Belleville, New Jersey to Hollis Joseph Sobers (1937 – 1995) and Ann Lois Sobers. Sobers, who has an older sister, Hollann Joli, grew up in Convent Station, New Jersey, where his parents moved to soon after he was born. His father was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and died from a brain tumor caused by cancer when Sobers was 14 years old.

Justin attended 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 Frelinghuysen Middle School and Morristown High School. After graduating from high school in 1999, he attended Hofstra University in 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.