Former West Sussex student celebrates winning two more Grammy Awards

Former Worth School student Oli Jacobs is celebrating winning two more Grammy Awards at a star-studded awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

The hugely successful recording/mixing engineer had been nominated for four Grammys this year for his work with Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. He ultimately took home the awards for Best Album of the Year for Kendrick Lamar’s Luther and Best RAP Album of the Year, also for Kendrick Lamar’s GNX.

Oli Jacobs. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

placeholder image — Oli Jacobs. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

These bring Jacobs’s total number of Grammys to five, having been nominated an incredible 11 times.

Jacobs said: “The amazing thing about being nominated for a Grammy is that it is one of the few awards where you are judged by your peers.”

(L-R) Oli Jacobs, Katie May and guest, pose with the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award for "i/o", in the press room during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards in 2025. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)

Jacobs, who was living in Sussex while at Worth School, graduated in 2010 and went on to study Sound Recording & Music at the University of Surrey. After completing his degree, he spent eight years working at Real World Studios, the recording facility created by Peter Gabriel in a stunning rural setting near Bath, working his way up to head engineer. He is now a freelance mixing engineer based in LA and works with a range of artists including Taylor Swift and Harry Styles.

Worth is an independent, coeducational school near Crawley.