Biography

James has lived his life surrounded and absorbed by music. His stepfather was a successful pianist, well-known around jazz clubs and recording studios. His mother was an influential music booking agent, and music-business consultant, teacher and author. No wonder, as James likes to say, that "when we were talking around the dinner table, it was usually about music. Even if dinner was at 1 a.m. after one of my stepfather's gigs."

As for playing his own music, James first picked up a guitar when he was nine, and started writing songs and singing in high school. Since then he has not stopped doing either and, since 2011, has released three albums of original songs, plus freestanding singles. His latest single (released Sept. 19, 2016) is "On A Night Like This", a song about finally meeting someone special you've only seen from a distance. More singles are scheduled for release over the coming months.

Music is not James' only love. He's had a successful, award-winning career in radio, and he wrote a suspense fiction, "Echoes: A Novel", which is about a radio journalist who investigates a complex murder and has been described as "Reminiscent of Robert Ludlum at his best."