Samantha James

Dance-pop singer Samantha James is normally inspired less with the R&B divas you might expect in her particular design of music than with a subtler variety of 1980s singers influenced by vintage cocktail jazz and bossa nova, such as for example Basia, Sade, and Tracey Thorn of Everything However the Girl, aswell as contemporaries employed in the same general design such as for example Bebel Gilberto or Miho Hatori of Smokey & Miho. Created and elevated in LA, James may be the granddaughter from the past due David Rose, the orchestra innovator and film and tv soundtrack composer most widely known for his 1962 instrumental strike “The Stripper.” Her debut recording, Rise, co-written and made by Sebastian Arocha Morton (aka Rocasound), premiered in 2007 from the San Francisco-based electronica label OM Information, preceded from the single from the same name, which strike number one within the Billboard club graph in 2006.