Wendy James
Wendy James ( born January 21, 1966 in East Sussex, England) is a British singer and songwriter. They gained greater prominence as lead singer of the alternative rock band Transvision Vamp in the late 1980s. Since 2004 she is the front woman of the U.S. band Racine.
Wendy James was given up for adoption immediately after birth and grew up with her adoptive parents. Already at the age of 16 she left home and went to Brighton to study drama. In order to finance their studies, Wendy James began with solo performances as a singer in a nightclub, where she lectured mainly cover versions by Patti Smith songs. As part of this, she learned Nick Christian Sayer, with whom she contracted soon and joint projects carried out. Subsequently, the two moved to London, where in 1986 she finally found the band Transvision Vamp.
Separated in 1991 Transvision Vamp, after they had previously released three albums. Because all the songs were written and composed by Transvision Vamp by Nick Christian Sayer, Wendy James did, which had previously only sung, hard to start their own solo career since she lacked any experience for music production. In 1993, she released her solo album " Now Is not the Time for Your Tears", which was written for this reason completely by her boyfriend Elvis Costello, so as to allow her a fresh start. The album earned invariably bad reviews, and so Wendy James finished provisionally her solo career.
In the period from 1994 to 2004 Wendy James disappeared completely from the music scene and moved to New York. There she began writing and composing songs employ, where they resorted almost exclusively to computers and electronic devices. 2004 eventually joined the band as lead singer in Racine. The band released two albums "Number One" ( 2004) and " Racine 2" ( 2007) before they broke up again. Eighteen years after " Now Is not the Time for Your Tears" Wendy James published in 2011 her second solo album "I Came Here To Blow Minds".
Credentials
The Belgian rock band Paranoiacs has paid her in 1989 on the album Bananas with the song ' Wendy James' tribute.