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® JAKUB STARY

One World. One Consciousness. One Love.
Shame
(Out Now)

2020 -
Present

about me

I'm a dreamer, a visionary and a storyteller. Through my music I imagine a world where we no longer fight, where we live in peace and where we truly understand one another. A world where all the differences that once divided us are already healed and we finally live in real harmony.

My songs carry pieces of that vision – they are not just melodies, but a reflection of a longing heart. I try to live authentically, following the way I feel, because I believe that only honesty can lead us closer to one another. Music has been calling me for decades and I finally chose to answer that call. I create music because I don’t want to leave this world with the regret of never having had the courage to even try.

//2025
ZERØ WORLD ØUT FOR EVERYØNE
When darkness takes over,
ZERØ reminds us that love is still the strongest force.
Some of my music

From journalism to music, Jakub Stary has always sought one thing – to connect people. Today, his beats and lyrics carry the same mission: unity, healing, and love.

Selected Jakub Stary Records

Shame
(2026)
escape into a vision
of a united world
ZERØ (album)
(2025)
COMING OUT, VOL. 3 (album)
(2024)
Badboy (single)
Changes (single)
(2024)
Freak Show (single)
(2024)
Connecting souls
through beats
I don’t just
make music
Since 2009 I’ve been trying to connect people through stories with LUI.
Since 2020 I’ve been doing the same through music – building bridges with words and beats.
For those seeking more than just music,
my songs carry a vision of unity and hope.
blogs

Recent Blogs

4. 5. 2026
(not only) Queer therapist Ondřej Mystik: Pain is not the enemy. It's an indicator that something in us wants to heal. How to move on in life?
He refers to himself as Andrew the Mystic. Not because he wants to hide behind a mysterious label, but because it was his journey to mysticism, working with emotions, energy, body and his own mind that helped him find his way back to himself. Today, Ondřej Dudek helps people understand why the same pains, relationship patterns or feelings of dissatisfaction recur in their lives. Outside of that, he paints and reminds us that healing doesn't begin by removing the pain. But by stopping running from it.
Ibiza, únor 2025
26. 4. 2026
"I risked everything, started living in a motor home and lost more than the car." A probe into the middle of the rebuilding process, when you work for years but nothing comes back
They say that if you work long enough, the results will come. That the universe returns the energy you send into it. That if you believe and persevere and don't give up, sooner or later it will break. Sound good? Yeah, it does. Motivational? Yeah. Safe? Of course it is. But what if it's not as easy as it looks? What if you work for years, give it your all, sacrifice security, comfort; everything you've spent years building and relationships too, but nothing comes back? No reward, no breakthrough. Just silence.
Nenávist je skutečně pouhým klamem, který jen kryje nezahojenou bolest
22. 4. 2026
Hate is just a delusion Or what if what divides us is just a pain we never learned to heal
Maybe we've really just forgotten how not to worry. Not because the world is more dangerous than it used to be, but because we've learned to see each other as a threat. As "the other." As someone who wants to take something from us, who threatens us, who doesn't belong. It's just... what if it's different? What if the hatred we see all around us today is not a real force, but an illusion? A deception that arises where one has failed to face one's own pain and has never dared to look it in the eye...
JS
30. 3. 2026
It was the hardest thing on Earth! Let myself die, let it hurt! After months of slowly dying, I found heaven in surrendering...
I share the verses I wrote down in moments of my greatest pain. Paradoxically, these were the moments when my heart was most open - broken enough to let the light shine through...
Cena za následování vlastního snu může být vysoká, jsem ale ochoten ji zaplatit
22. 2. 2026
When an old identity dies, it hurts. But there is no greater pain than to reach the end of life, to look back and reproach myself for not having lived the way I wanted to. Without the ability to change anything else
Diary entry, 22. 02. 2026, Prague
JS
18. 2. 2026
"Shit, I don't even like myself!" A moment that changed everything and became the goal of my two-year search for self-worth and self-love
What if the identity crisis is not about who we are, but about the fact that we never learned to love ourselves? A personal confession about the disintegration of the ego, the burial of the old self, and the return to a masculinity that no longer needs to struggle with its femininity.
JS
18. 2. 2026
When a man suppresses the "female" part. What psychology knows about it and what it can lead to
"Don't cry." "Be a man." "Don't be embarrassed." A lot of men grew up in an environment where sensitivity, softness, vulnerability, the need for closeness or intuition were considered inappropriate. They were (and unfortunately still are) considered "feminine." Therefore, in the optics of our patriarchally set society, undesirable. But the biggest mistake is to think that these qualities are only feminine. They are neither feminine nor masculine, they are simply human. And when a person disconnects them for a long time, it can have surprisingly concrete effects on the psyche, health and relationships. So how is the pressure for "proper masculinity" born in men, why is suppression of emotions so common, and most importantly, where can it all lead?
JS
18. 2. 2026
From darkness to truth: An intimate diary account of the search for identity. A year and a half of wandering in a bathtub that led me to the edge, but also back to myself
I remember my first night in the motorhome like it was yesterday. I went from a spacious 106-square-foot apartment to less than four in one day. The first stop was Kvilda in the Bohemian Forest, where winter still reigned at the end of April 2024. My mind alternated with thoughts like "What have I done? How am I going to make it? What is waiting for me?" But I knew one thing for sure - I couldn't go back to my old life. It was too destructive for me.
9. 2. 2026
Diary entries: gender is the future, toxic masculinity is real and god is in all of us
31. 01. 2026, Prague. Today, for the first time - after an extremely long time - I almost automatically said something that makes me extremely happy: "This is me." It was at the moment when I began to form an image of myself as a person who has both sides integrated in me - the masculine and the feminine.
Ibiza, Pou d'Es Lleó
23. 8. 2025
15 months in a caravan: a journey that brought me to the bottom. And to a personal transformation that doesn't get talked about much..
How did I even get here? How did it happen that after 16 years of toil, sacrifice and sacrifice that I made in order to be somewhere else today, I find myself in a situation where I have nothing, I am drowning in debt and I am, on the contrary, broke? Did I do something wrong in believing that if I do work that brings me pleasure while helping other people, I can be happy in life? Where the hell did I go wrong? Is the world really that unfair?
CRAFT

Meaningful Song Verses

Badboy (single)

COMING OUT, VOL. 3 (album)

Shame

I’m done playing the victim card / Maybe I made it hard / Maybe I’m not that smart / Losing my way in greed / Before I met with God / Before I looked up to the sky / And said I bow down

Ah! Shame / My true self underneath it / But wait, I am lost / What is my identity / Maybe I’m not a man / Maybe becoming a woman / Yeah I’m scared / When unpacking my illusion

It is / Fair to say I’m a believer / When I close my eyes / I feel like she/her / When I get into my head / I’m back to he/him / Though I cannot be denying / She’d be awaking

As a boy I played with dolls / As a boy I played with dresses / They said no you’re not a girl / I said okay and then suppressed it / But now I feel pain / For the love / That has been wasted / Shame on systematic rules / allowing this

ZERØ (album)

Jakub I am DOUBLE SOUL Stary
I just do what I love, enjoy the journey and believe in myself. That's my formula.
For You My Love
(Out Now)
Shame
(Out Now)
The Cage
(Out Now)