Jacob
Richer ’13 well known for his music
By Denise Rasche ‘13
One of the most well-known bands
around Badin, Skyferd
Lake, has been spreading its
music throughout the Tri-State.
Senior
Jacob Richter is the leader and co-founder of the band so I set off to find out
more about it and his passion for music. He started out by learning how to play
the drums in the sixth grade with guidance from his dad. He picked up the drums
quickly, only taking a few months, but he wanted to learn more.
Jacob
says that Skyferd
Lake began with 2011
Badin graduate, Kristen Collier. They started playing together and were soon
joined by current senior Sam Spoerl and another 2011 Badin grad, Doug Fredrick.
Complications
arose later on, which left Jacob and Sam as the only band members. Then Sam
introduced Jacob to a drummer named Jake Hare. “He’s probably the
best drummer I've played with,” Jacob
explains.
After
that, things started looking up for Skyferd
Lake when the band gained
two new Spoerls, Jake and Sarah. Now Skyferd
Lake is well-known
throughout the Badin community and elsewhere. If you would like to see them in
action, they will be playing at Rick’s Tavern in Fairfield this month.
Even
though Jacob is the founder of Skyferd
Lake and has a dense
background in music, he still has other interests and wishes in his life. He
says that some of his other hobbies are “archery, paintball, writing, but
mostly music.” His favorite subject is math and especially physics because he
likes “how systematic it all is.”
He
plans to go to the University
of Cincinnati and major
in either commercial
music
production or secondary math education after he
graduates from Badin. Jacob says that he will miss “the openness between
students and teachers” at Badin and hopes to become either a math teacher or write
music and scores for different
media sources.
He
definitely has a passion for both music and mathematics -- but who knows where
he and Skyferd Lake will go with the achievements they
have already accomplished. These accomplishments are mirrored in the words of
Jacob’s favorite quote, “It only takes five seconds of insane courage to change
your whole life.”
