Jamie Cutler Harper
  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler "Love Looks Good On You"
  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler (My Corner Of The Universe)
  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler (We Don't Talk Anymore)
  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler "Love Looks Good On You"
    Genre: Country
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  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler (My Corner Of The Universe)
    Genre: Country
    MP3 (03:09) [7.21 MB]
  • Jamie Cutler Harper/John R Butler (We Don't Talk Anymore)
    Genre: Country
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Biography
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"Ruby's Gone Redneck" was the first Country Independent single of the new Milenium, voted by the dj's and the fans for On-Line country and Nashville's Tracker Magazine.

Aleta and Steve say you'll love this one.

"Old Brass Rail" was written for Jamie's father before he passed away about the stand up attitude that her Dad had about life.

If you miss a loved one than you'll love "I Hear the Wind Blow".

This one is Dawn's favorite.

Legacy of Love was put together for Jamie's kids as her Legacy of Love to them as evidenced by "Best Part Of the Day." Jamie Cutler Harper's Tidbits-Autobiography The biggest challenge is where to start and what to include or delete when writing you autobiographical goodies.

I have been truly blessed and have had alot of fun making music and drama in this lifetime.

For the last ten or fifteen years I have had an award winning (Golden Eagle Award and Tracker Magazine Award and Florida Country Music, CMOA) TV show called Starmaker, which true to its name features entertainers including singers, musicians, dancers, comedians, ventriloquists, but mostly singers.

Encouraging talented people to develop themselves has always been a forte and somewhat of a talent for me.

Each week I have featured three to seven artists on the show, dressed them up, coached them as best as I could in the short time we had, and gave them a chance to strut their stuff.

Being seen, heard, and getting your gifts out to the public is a very important part of being an entertainer.

A key to realizing their dreams in my mind is giving artists that boost of confidence.

I look forward to expanding the show to a national and international level in the future because being in this business I constantly see talent that I would love to feature.

It seems like another life when I was acting in Broadway shows, and singing in the nightclubs in New York City.

I had gone there fresh out of college and some happening rock bands (Andalusia, Mother Goose, Pugh Street Athletic Club) because I had been cast in lots of plays and my best friend Debra Cahill who is now the director of Winning Image Talent Agency in LA told me I had to go to her old acting school in the village Herbert Bergorf studio.

One of my class mates in our small dramatic song interpretation class was Bette Midler, and Barry Manilow played piano for us.

We'd hand Barry our music and he'd tip his hat, he always wore this white Fedora hat.

Sometimes I brought my guitar and sang my originals and actually Barry used part of one of my songs.

We tossed Bette's first 45 record around the room amongst the 6 or 7 of us.

Our teacher was a wonderful gay man who looked alot like Dudley do right of the Mounties named Robert Elston, who loved to think of us all as his future diva's.

He had us sing in the Continental baths to break us in, and the gay guys there just loved Bette cause she was so campy.

I sang background vocals for her first recording of "You Got To Have Friends." Barry was getting his act together to go on the road and asked me to be one of his background singers.

Sometimes I think my life would have been so different if I had said "yes".

Hmmmmm, Neon palm tree's still remind me of Barry.

In the meantime I was singing down in the village at the Bitter End the club where Bob Dylan was discovered, opening for David Brenner and Rodney Dangerfield at Catch A Rising Star; singing in-between the comedians Andy Kaufman and Eddie Murphy at Bud Friedman's place the Improv Club, auditioning for shows and taking music, dance and acting classes.

A producer heard me singing at the Bitter End and a dream came true for me,Broadway,I got cast in Promises Promises with Orsen Bean, Shelley Long, and Barney Martin, the Dad from Seinfeld.

My roommate Kevin Klein was touring with the Julliard acting company, and he was scheduled to do his first off Broadway show called Robber Bridegroom which I later did the musical direction for.

Kevin was doing Pirates of Penzance with Linda Ronstadt and I brought my ballet teacher Trudl who was convinced that I was lying.

When Kevin came to me backstage and asked me where his alarm clock was Trudl kept of cursing under her breath and just about fainted on the spot.

My neighbor down the hall Shirley Bassey asked me to write the score to a movie for her with an famous Italian composer Nino Tassone (Falini Satyricon and Eight and a Half).

The movie was called Dangerous Game or La Bravada in Italian and my Mom has the 45 of the theme song encased in Plexiglas in her living room.

That's how I became a BMI writer even though my great Uncle Benny Davis (Baby Face, Where the Boys Are, Don't Break the Heart That Loves You, With These Hands, Margie) was a founding father of ASCAP.

I feel like I've been a touchstone bringing encouragement, courage, and good fortune to my talented friends throughout the years.

My acting partner in college Jonathan Frakes told me of how he dreamed of one day being a big star.I told him to go for it.

Some of you may recall Jonathan as commander Riker, second in command on Star Trek the New Generation, and he directed the last episode which frankly is my favorite.

I did two European and Middle Eastern tours with the Penn State Singers touring 14 countries.

Most recently in February of 2000 I had the good fortune to tour Holland,Belgium, and Denmark with Gary Bradshaw's Western Heart promotions singing country music.

What a thrill to meet the dj's and the fans who have been listening to my music.

A million thanks to Gary and our hosts John Melissen and Mia Heylen and Bjarne.

At the time when I went to NYC, Andy Kaufman and I were into transcendental meditation, before he got kicked out,and I became a Buddhist partly because of the way they treated Andy.

They just didn't understand his sense of humor.

We painted a huge 6 foot "IT" on my front door cause Andy and I thought then we wouldn't ever have to worry about making "IT"cause we'd already have made it.

Andy used to call me America's sweetheart songstress.

(Latva of Taxi) Andy used to try out his routines for me in my living room.

I loved the bongo thing he used to do.

I still have a set in my own living room.

We used to make the rounds of all the comedy clubs night after night and I'd sing and he'd do his comedy.

I cut the cake for the first year anniversary of Catch A Rising Star and sang the Marilyn Monroe birthday song.

When I was in college at Penn State my friend Carmen wrote our springweek skit and cast me as one of the wicked sisters.

I told him that he had to come with me to New York.

Carmen slept on my couch, we ate vats of brown rice, and I got him a small part that they call a bit part or a walk on at the Jean Cocteau off off very off Broadway theater where he met Steve Martin who asked him to write comedy for his stand up show.

Next Carmen started writing for the award winning Cosby show, then he started his own show called "Home Improvement." When I took the kids out to sit in on the filming of the show my daughter was standing next to Tim Allen and Jonathan Taylor Thomas and all of their teachers wanted me to take them, too.

At this point I had just finished acting as Rosalind in As You Like It in England and had gotten my Masters in acting at New York University.

Almost immediately I got hired at the Ruth Forman Theatre in Miami to act, teach, cast, and help out with whatever needed to be done.

(Ron Howard, Governor/Senator Graham's coach, oldest children theatre in the country) I was singing at South Beach at the Carlysle Hotel and taking alot of acting jobs,and taught acting at the University of Miami and at Florida International University.

My friend Craig cast me in the first pilot show of Miami Vice I was the Lincoln Mercury girl, did American Airlines commercials, RC Cola, Police Films, got cast in Porky's, Wes Craven's first sequel to the Chain Saw Massacre called Funhouse, did my own pool shots in May I Call You Old Timer, Absence of Malice, did plays like Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, Best Little Whorehouse, Lovers and Other Strangers, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and on and on and on.

I just kept on singing and acting my way through life.

During the shooting of Porky's I got pregnant with my son Todd.

I was supposed to be the gym teacher in the sequel, but couldn't do it cause I was way too pregnant,but didn't know it yet.

I just thought I was gaining a little weight.

I was singing and dancing in a show at the Fountainbleu Hotel and one of the dancers had noticed that I had begun to blossom.

She asked me if I was pregnant.

I told her "No, I couldn't be pregnant, I just must be getting fat." She called her doctor and insisted that I put my feet up and get a check-up in the morning.

I was so thrilled to be wrong and they had to change all of my costumes.

My children Todd and Jessica are my greatest accomplishments.

My country rock band Mystery was doing gigs all over the Miami /Ft.Lauderdale area while I was pregnant with Todd.

Our show landed an engagement at the Playboy club.

One night I announced "Last year I was bunny of the year, but this year I killed the rabbit." This landed me the cover of Playboy 8 months pregnant.

"Hello that's not the way I expected to be a Playboy cover girl," I chortled.

Well I can always say that I worked for Playboy and be telling the truth.

Actually I danced in a show at the Playboy hotel in Miami also, but I'm afraid you'll all want me to don my bunny suit so the rabbit is now out of the hat.

In Miami I did an album with Mystery my Miami band at Traks and Criteria where the Bee Gee's Diana Ross, Madonna etc.

recorded their albums.

My son Todd crawled around at my feet and seemed to dislodge himself like Houdini from any of my attempts to keep him away from the noise of the rehearsals.

Now he plays guitar and sings in his own band which at this time is still "Nameless." My first solo record was released with Tone/TK records out of Hialeah where KC and the Sunshine Band got their start.

That was my first label and I was so thrilled even thought I couldn't find Hialeah.

(LOL) We've been trying to figure out how many albums I've actually done or been on.

About 12 solo albums and I've been on numerous compilation discs and sang background for folks like Jeb Stuart, Bette Midler's song Friends with Buzzy Linhardt, at Shirley Bassey's studio I was a regular, did the American Airlines commercials and on and on, but that seems like another lifetime too.

About two weeks after my daughter Jessica was born I had to move to Ft.Myers, Florida to help my parents run the family hotel business.

I thought "Oh well, this is the end of my singing career." But I was dead wrong.

Where Miami did not have even one chapter of the Country Music Association, Ft.

Myers had five.

When I first arrived, actually they fought over which chapter I was gonna be a member of Naples, Lehigh, Ft.Myers, Hendry, or Punta Gorda.

It was so exciting to have all of these country jamboree's to sing at, and now my friends pointed out I even had my own Night Club at the hotel.

I am now a life time member of the Florida Country Music Association and the Country Music Organization of America having been very active in both for the last fifteen years.

My family and I have had the blessings of receiving nume- rous awards through both organizations for performances, songwriting, video, albums, singles of the year, vocalist and vocal group of the year both of my children have been Country,State,and National winners along with myself.

My son Todd was the junior male vocalist in the nation the same year that Leann Rhimes was the junior female vocalist.

At the lounge I also held open mike nights and held a songwriters workshop that eventually got me assigned as the Ft.Myers coordinator of Nashville Songwriters Association International.

I've been a very active member of NSAI for years now and have enjoyed spending time with many outstanding writers like John Ims (She's In Love With the Boy)Hugh Prestwood (Ghost In This House,Song Remember's When) Steve Seskin (Lifes's A Dance,Don't Laugh At Me) Angela Kassette (Something In Red) James Dean Hicks (Jesus And Momma, Daddy's Money, Working Woman's Holiday)Jason Blume (Change My Mind) improving our songwriting.

To me the songwriting community is nurtured by NSAI providing training and advice from professional writers who generously give their time,expertise, and advice.

By the way I have a song on hold with Elton John at present called "Field Filled With Flowers" for a movie about Princess Diana's life.

In the meantime I did another two albums locally here in Ft.Myers.

At one point a man named Mike Harvill came into the recording studio and told me that he had sent one of my songs to Stargems and that he wanted to start me on getting the songs promoted.

That's when I had my first Nashville promoters and Wayne Hodges got me on Stargems.

They had me come to sign autographs at my first Fan Fair with Tanya Tucker on my right and Holly Dunn on my left.

I was in heaven getting to sing with the Joe Barnhill band at Fan Fair.

They started getting me involved with IFCO the International Fan Club Organization.

I got to sign and perform at Fan Fair for eight years with such great artists as Loretta Lynn, Johnny Paycheck, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Penny Gilly, Suzy Boguss, Charlie Pride, on&on.James Williams became one of the promoters that Wayne put on my project, and one day Wayne told me that James really loved my writing and that I should think about doing an album with him in Nashville.

(Emotions, Love At A Distance, Flavors or Love, Legacy of Love-our current release )James suggested that Gary Bradshaw and Chuck Dixon work on my promotions as well and he said that every successful artist has numerous promoters.

I almost forgot mentioning that I got to do two great video's called Love At A Distance (Race Myrick of Blair Witch Project) and Different Drum the Linda Rondstadt hit written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkeys.

I had heard KT Oslin talk about how she had saved for over twenty years to launch her own career and that whether you did it with a major label or you did it yourself, or on an independent label you had to have good promoters.

I have been very very very blessed to have the greatest promoters yes the most wonderful studpendous blessing I think is to have such great people/promorters working to promote my music.

Over fourteen number 1 Independent Records later I want to thank Nashville Tracker Magazine for helping us Independent artists get our music achievements out into print.

There you go Audre as hard as it was to write about myself I bit the bullet and did it.

Thanks for making me do it Audre.

Thanks Gary for listening while I was trying to write this and thanks to my wonderful family for all of your support while I never gave up.

Hold Onto Your Dreams everyone I Love you, Jamie Cutler Harper
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