Samantha James

Background

The daughter of Melanie Lee Rose and granddaughter of musician David Rose, James grew up with different types of music

Career

She released her debut album, Rise, in 2007 on Om Records, which features production work by Sebastian Arocha Morton (aka ROCAsound). The title track from the album was released as a single and reached Number. 1 on the United States Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

During her teens, she became heavily involved in the underground dance scene in Los Los Angeles

Her influences include Pat Metheny, Sade, Tracey Thorn, Lady Mission Kier, Madonna, Esthero, Morcheeba, Bebel Gilberto, Basia, and Róisín Murphy. At the age of 13, James lost her mother to breast cancer after an eight-year-long battle with the disease.

After eight years of working on her music, she met Sebastian Arocha Morton, who worked with artists such as Sting, Vikter Duplaix, and Fischerspooner. When she met Morton, James was determined to be different from other artists.

After a while James and Morton came up with a mix of soulful and electronic music and continued on that pathological

When they contacted the label and sent them a demo of her song "Rise", she was signed on to a single deal. After a while she was signed to do a full-length album. When she released her first single "Rise" in 2006, it hit the Number.

1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

Shortly after releasing her debut album she toured around the world. In 2009, James announced that she was working on a new album named Subconscious.

James later stated that just before Rise was released, her father died and she took some time off before commencing writing new songs for the new album. On June 22, 2010 James released her second album.

James also released the song "Wings of Faith", dedicated to Japan, due to the tsunami in 2011.

Connections

Friend:

Dave Curtin