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James was born in Kansas City, Missouri. James’ long term fascination with music began at an early age, and he played piano as his first instrument. He developed a love of rock music and a great desire for a guitar and to become a guitar player. Later He moved to Carrollton, TX just before the age of 8, and then later moved to Fort worth at age 11, where he now currently resides. At age 12 James decided that he wanted a guitar badly enough to spend the entire summer mowing yards to afford his first guitar, which he then was finally able to purchase at the end of the summer. He started out playing electric guitar, learning songs from various popular rock artists.

In High school he started playing in local bands at age 16, and was playing clubs by the end of his junior year. Also at age 18 he won 1st place and a guitar (Which he still uses today) for best lead guitarist in a local competition. Also at 18 he began teaching guitar lessons under the guidance of his original guitar instructor. He studied music and guitar performance at both TCC and Texas Wesleyan University. He has played in a variety of projects and bands and still teaches guitar lessons in the area. He studied both classical guitar and jazz in college, and his senior recital featured a combination of pieces from classical guitar, jazz standards as well as some contemporary pieces including Joe Satriani and the band Chicago.

James says “”Playing guitar has been a passion of mine since I was very young. Probably about 5-6 years old I was enchanted by the guitar, and it still has me captivated.” He was original influenced by players like Kurt Cobain, Slash, Marty Friedman, Kirk Hammet, Joe Satriani, Dimebag Darrell, James Hetfield, Jimi hendrix, among many others. He says “I Learned that a lot of the greatest players studied many types of music, being influenced by all of it, I decided that I should do the same. I feel as long as it is good music and I’m playing guitar, it is what i want to do”