Soule was born in the midwestern town of Keokuk, Iowa.
It's no mean feat for a modest, small-town boy. A list of credits as long as your arm includes Guild Wars 2, Warhammer: Dawn of War, Company of Heroes and several Harry Potter games, showing that Soule has never been short of work, and his many vibrant, vigorous compositions have built him a huge fanbase.
His sweeping, orchestral scores have graced dozens of high-profile games, chief amongst them the Elder Scrolls series, for which he created the now iconic Morrowind theme, which has been reborn and reinterpreted in the series sequels Oblivion and Skyrim. Soule's most famous for his work on Elder Scrolls, but his career stretches back to the days of the SNES. Soule has been composing for games since 1995, when he wrote the soundtrack for Secret of Evermore on the SNES, but he's achieved particular prominence in the last decade, becoming one of the industry's most famous and most distinctive talents. If you don't know Jeremy Soule, you surely know his music, though if you really don't know that, you may not know video games. It's such a personal vision that I fear writing it down, for worry that I might misrepresent him, that I might not be able to do justice to his view of a world in which composers borrow music rather than create it, and where there might be "a little bit of Beethoven in all of us." Though he takes a lot of pleasure from his work, Soule is so deferential, even humble, that the idea of slighting this man in any way fills me with horror. Instead, as we talk, he describes a vision of something rather more cryptic, even spiritual in nature that ties in with how he sees a world in which we're all connected. Jeremy Soule, whose work creating soundtracks for video games has won him a host of awards from organisations that include BAFTA and MTV, doesn't say that his life flashed before him. That was odd, because being a perfectionist I'm never satisfied." "I knew that if I died that night, I felt satisfied in the direction I was going with my life. "You really see things in a profound sort of way, as you're hurtling at highway speeds into oncoming traffic," says the composer, who found himself accepting that these might be his final moments. Regardless, as Jeremy Soule's car hydroplaned into the oncoming traffic on Insterstate 5 that night, as the headlights rushed out of the darkness towards him and as his car began to roll, the only thought in his mind was that he didn't want anyone else to be hurt. It could've been over-inflated tyres combined with the rain on the road and a rogue gust of wind coming in off the Pacific Ocean, but the exact cause of the accident may never be known.
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