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Dance-pop singer Samantha James is inspired less by the R&B divas one would expect in her chosen style of music than by a subtler breed of 1980s singers influenced by vintage cocktail jazz and bossa nova, such as <a href="spotify:artist:4mITrNyXdPhy8phBHPgAHk">Basia</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:47zz7sob9NUcODy0BTDvKx">Sade</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7xFnmid57ZE6iWEXdEXO3b">Tracey Thorn</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:13ccXrK7AmXb4TddMkE7jy">Everything But the Girl</a>, as well as contemporaries working in the same general style such as <a href="spotify:artist:6gk4ierjjSVPoZep27VfZz">Bebel Gilberto</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:21StrITbN3uLjv5OdsLAja">Miho Hatori</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:4ugKaIEVH5GFg8H1mGAB0a">Smokey & Miho</a>. Born and raised in Los Angeles, James is the granddaughter of the late <a href="spotify:artist:2nv8pUrGHqpVzYvQCyiKjk">David Rose</a>, 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 <a href="spotify:artist:1bkLMBTu8Vo6jERlHbho8H">Sebastian Arocha Morton</a> (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. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi
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