State your reason for choosing music as a career.
Hearing a song as a kid and it instantly has an effect on you. Wow, what was that, I want to do that.
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Tell us how you write the lyrics to your song.
I was always the kid that would do a three page story in my Primary School while other kids struggled with half a page. Lucky. Having said that I was in the bottom class. 🙁 So writing isn’t that hard for me, lucky.
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Tell us about your life outside the music world.
I’m an electrician, which enables me to promote my music. Before I wrote over 50 songs I did have a life. All my time now is spent promoting my songs. I party every Saturday night then back to it, but as a ‘working bee’, I can do it, kind of enjoy it. 🙂
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Brief us about your music career.
I tried to make it when I was a teenager, summer season at Butlins, but failed. I’m back with good songs this time and you are only as good as the song you are singing and I want to be acknowledged as a songwriter.
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Elaborate on how you come about your artist’s name.
It’s my name. I say the J is for joker but it is ‘James’.
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List your favourite music video with reason.
Bruno Mars, ‘Uptown Funk’. ‘Impossible, spending too much time’.
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Tell us your source of inspiration.
Music inspires me to try and make music.
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Tell us your impression on dealing with paparazzi.
Very hard, I keep chasing after them but every time they get away. 🙂
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Elaborate on the A-Z process of this song.
I get a bit of the tune and a bit of the title, then I spend about three weeks thinking about it, writing down catchy lines every day, then I will sit down with about thirty sheets of ‘rewrites’, and put the song together like a jigsaw, (lot of work, hope it shows.).
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Tell us what you have on the way for your fans.
This summer I hope to have a great band, but I think Promo comes first. And I am not aware I have any fans. 🙁
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List the names of those that have supported you so far.
I have some great music mates; I talk to a lot, but in this business you are on your own, your decision on the song, the arrangement, the YouTube, the Promo etc. Okay, alright, my mum.
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Tell us your opinion on the use of auto-tune.
If my producer has auto-tune; it must have been broken when I was there.
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Tell us your opinion on quality and quantity in terms of releasing songs.
I am using the ‘cheese system’, give them just a few songs and hopefully that will tempt them back to my ‘lair’ of songs, hee, hee.
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Tell us your opinion on comparing music career to non-music career.
If you have a music career you must constantly ‘Chant the Mantra’; it is far better to give than to receive.
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State the genre you hate most with reason.
It’s never about the genre, if a song is good it can be in any genre and it will be a good listen, it’s not easy to write a ‘good’ song in any genre.
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List your five favourite movies with reasons.
Anything funny. Loved Jack Black in ‘Rock School’. Don’t do ‘violence’. I was gutted when ‘ Friends’ on T.V. came to an end.
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State the links to your stores and website.