当今的Soulful Deep House世界,最值得注意的新生代歌姬!她的歌声,牵动喜悦与哀愁的情绪。
拥有词曲创作/现场演出等洋溢才华,Samantha James的光芒从参与《OM: Chilled》合辑开始便已让人大为惊艳!
她对歌曲的诠释深深受到Basia、Sade等歌手的影响,融合了爵士的即兴、蓝眼灵魂的优雅与电子舞曲里适度加温的优秀功力。
by Stewart Mason
Dance-pop singer Samantha James is inspired less by the R&B divas one expects in her chosen style of music than by a subtler breed of 1980s singers influenced by vintage cocktail jazz and bossa nova, such as Basia, Sade, and Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl, as well as contemporaries working in the same general style such as Bebel Gilberto or Miho Hattori of Smokey and Miho. Born and raised in Los Angeles, James is the granddaughter of the late David Rose, the orchestra leader and film and television soundtrack composer best known for his 1962 instrumental hit "The Stripper." Her debut album Rise, co-written and produced by Sebastian Arocha Morton (aka Rocasound), was released in 2007 by the San Francisco based electronica label OM Records, preceded by the single of the same name, which hit number one on the Billboard club chart in 2006.