About Me
ANDRE'JAMES IS A NATIVE OF BEAUMONT,TX AND ONE OF HOUSTON'S MOST DIVERSE MALE VOCALISTS. HE CREDITS HIS MOTHER, ESTHER SEASTRUNK-McCLAIN FOR BEING INSTRUMENTAL IN EMBRACING HIS LOVE OF MUSIC BY EXPOSING HIM,AT AN EARLY AGE,TO HER ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF MUSIC,AND JOINING THE CHURCH CHOIR. IT WAS THERE, WHERE HE DISCOVERED HIS GIFT OF SONG. WHILE ATTENDING TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY,HE BECAME A HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER SESSION SINGER & BACKGROUND VOCALIST,WHICH AFFORED HIM OPPORTUNITIES TO TOUR IN JAPAN & KOREA.ANDRE' HAS RECORDED,PERFORMED,SUNG BACKGROUND,& SHARED THE STAGE WITH AWARD WINNING ARTISTS SUCH AS JOHNATHAN BUTLER, YOLANDA ADAMS, NANCY WILSON, BEYONCE', DONNIE MCCLURKIN, FRED HAMMOND, KIRK WHALUM, REGINA BELLE, AL JARREAU, KURT CARR, BONEY JAMES, OLLIE WOODSON, SMOKEY NORFUL, KIM BURRELL, DR.BOBBY JONES, MIKI HOWARD, CHANTE' MOORE, JOHN P. KEE, ASHFORD & SIMPSON, RICHARD SMALLWOOD, LALAH HATHAWAY, DARYL COLEY, DONALD LAWRENCE, MIKE PHILLIPS, GORDON CHAMBERS, LYLE LOVETTE, MARC ANTHONY, LA MAFIA, VESTA, HOWARD HEWITT, J.MOSS, ROY AYERS, ERIC ROBERSON, ANTHONY DAVID, KEM, FAITH EVANS, KYLE TURNER, MICHAEL WARD, RHONDA MCLEMORE & ROS BRUNSWICK-MCDUFFIE(LYRIC SINGS), CHRIS WALKER, JOE SAMPLE, BOBBY LYLE, PETER WHITE & THE LIST GOES ON.IN ADDITION, ANDRE' HAS SUNG WITH THE DISNEY BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF "THE LION KING", "COFEE-COLORED DREAMS" STAGE PLAY, M.D. ANDERSON CANCER FOUNDATION, MISS BLACK TEXAS PAGEANT,SISTER NETWORK FOR CANCER SURVIVORS & IN 2003, PERFORMED FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH. HE HAS SERVED AS THE COORDINATOR OF THE WINDSOR VILLAGE UNITED METHODIST SINGLE'S CHOIR (1-ACHORD),MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR "THE EDGE" OUTREACH MINISTRY SERVICE AT WINDSOR VILLAGE U.M.C. ANDRE CONTINUES TO HONE HIS CRAFT WHILE HE SERVES AS THE MUSIC COORDINATOR,HOST,& ONE THE HEADLINERS ON THE POPULAR SUNDAY NIGHTS AT HOUSTON'S NUMBER 1 PREMIER LIVE VENUE..."THE RED CAT JAZZ CAFE'" and "THE ARENA THEATRE".
