Age: 25

Appearance: James hass short dark brown hair that basically does whatever it wants. Once in awhile he’ll actually try to do something with it, but in the long run he gives up deciding his hair has a mind of his own. His eyes are a light green color that sometimes looks blue, but it depends on his mood what color his eyes will be for the day. His eyes are basically a window to his feelings, because all one has to do to see his mood is to look into his eyes. A true Rocker at heart, he doesn't really care about his clothing style. He’ll mostly wear jeans, sneakers, sweaters and t-shirts because that's how he feels comfortable. And comfort is a key factor in his life. For the occasion that requires some "classy" style he does put a tie and a shirt on but try to make him wear nice shoes it's a long, hard battle full of arguments.

Personality: James to most who first meet him, comes off as somewhat cocky. Though this is actually a front to keep people at an arms distance. He infact is a sensitive soul once you get to know him. He’s faithful, and somewhat compassionate to his friends. Though he’s not shy, he’ll sometimes act like it to throw people off. Not wanting to get hurt like he has been in the past, it takes a long time for him to trust strangers. He hates to betray or to be betrayed and when he makes a promise he keeps it not matter what. His major default would be that he doesn't forgive or forget easily. But you have to do something pretty scummy to get him to that point.

Family: Parents - Christopher (50), cook & Ann (47), manages an auto shop. Siblings - Oliver (21), students at UCLA, Colin (18), Darren (16) & Gene (13).

History: James is the oldest of 5 children, all boys, the only woman in the house being their mother Ann. He always felt closer to her than to his father and she is the one who gave him this love for music. Whenever she was at home, she was putting music on to bring life into the house but also to calm down her children. While James enjoyed listening to it and singing, his brothers prefered to go around the house and to play indians. At about 6 he started to take piano lessons, probably like most children of his age, but he never liked it much as those classes were more a pain in the butt for him than anything else, but he was pretty good at it, and was learning to read music.

Years passed and James spent his time between school, the piano and starting a big collection of CD’s. For Christmas, when he was 12 years old, he received his best present ever, his first guitar. It was one of his only gifts that year but James didn't care! He’d always loved guitars, spending hours upon watching people play them or going through the music stores of his hometown dreaming of owning one. Only a couple of minutes after getting it, he was already working hard at learning how to play it. Since that day, he’s never put it down. It was at the same time that he started to write his own songs, they might not have been the best, but for a boy of his age they were pretty good. Though he was working hard at school he his mind set to become a musician and not an unknown one but a very good and famous one like Jimmy Hendrix.

Being the oldest wasn't easy, he had to show his little brothers the right way, how to do things and that school was important. If he failed a test or got a bad grade his father would punish him rather severly to show that he wasn't kidding about education. But when James said that he wanted to become a rock star, his father just laughed telling him that he should stop dreaming and start to focus on school and think about college. James knew that in a way he had no choice but he wasn't going to give up his dream to satisfy his father's.

High School ended and James joined a local university, a couples of miles from home. And though he was doing well in school, he didn't feel that this life was taking him anywhere. When the first semester ended he just quite and packed everything he had: he was going to L.A to become what he really wanted and not what his father wanted.

When he arrived he realized that it wasn't to be as easy as he thought and he knew that standing in front of Management buildings and sending tapes to various producers everyday wasn't the best way. So he got himself a job and started to play in bars. That’s how he met Brock Lefabre, his future bandmate. They quickly realized that they had the same goals and started to play together, but something was still missing. They didn’t want to advertise for another band member, they felt they would find it simply and naturally and they did when they met Marti. They both knew she was the missing thing in their "band" and everything now could start. James felt that his life was really starting and that he was going to make his dream come true soon plus his friendship with his bandmates was basically perfect. But it didn't last like every good thing: Brock left to have his own career. He was hurt, probably less than Marti but he couldn't believe it, that Brock could be so selfish.

He made himself a promise he would get a revenge by making sure that L’anima made it big. He didn't want to give up L'anima, he wanted to continue what they had started, though they had one less band memebr. Besides taking care of himself, he now felt as though he had to take care of Marti. She had pretty hurt and depressed after the departure of Brock, and now he felt that he had to protect her against all guys. Her new crush makes him cringe. Of course it’s another musician, who’s pretty well known. James doesn’t want his friend hurt again and he really doesn’t want to lose his best friend and bandmate over a guy.

Job: Bartender at Shooters part time, Guitarist for L’anima

Vehicle: 1998 Grand Am Pontiac, color: Green

Circle of Friends: Marti Stanton, Beth Barker, Katherine Roberts