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James Collins is a Canadian songwriter, actor and singer.

[edit] Biography

As a songwriter, James has co-written, with Vancouver-based songwriter Dave Pickell over 20 Top 40 hits in Canada.

As a singer, James has had three Top 40 hits - Do You Mind If We Talk About Bill, which peaked at number 31 on the Canadian national BDS Hot Adult Contemporary chart and Missing You At Christmas (That's All), peaking at number 17 on the Canadian national BDS AC chart. Two years earlier, the original version of Missing You At Christmas (That's All) peaked Top 30, nationally. James' vulnerable, heart felt ballad, "Good Enough (To Love)" also peaked at number two on Quebec's provincial A'disq Le Palmares Top 25 Pop Adult chart. Good Enough (To Love) sat at the number two position for four weeks, behind the worldwide smash Bad Day by Daniel Powter.

These are impressive stats considering James solely promotes his own music to radio, without any help from a major label.

In 2006, Sony-BMG picked up James' Christmas song, Missing You At Christmas (That's All) as well as the Christmas song he wrote with Melissa Manchester (sung by Melissa Manchester), My Christmas Song For You and placed both tracks on their Platinum Christmas 3 compilation (featuring: Carly Simon, Bruce Springstein, Harry Connick Jr., Tony Bennett, Cyndi Lauper...etc).

Just recently, James solo debut album, The Messenger has been picked up by Trilogy Records International.

As an actor, James can be seen playing principal roles in TV series, such as, Doc, Queer as Folk and the hit Canadian TV series This Is Wonderland.

James can also be seen playing, Ralph, the town bully in the Canadian feature film Lakefront and soon, he appears in the supporting role of Gary, the hotel manager, in the upcoming zombie flick, Queen Of The Zombie Punks. James played the farmer father character in Nickelback's worldwide number one rock video Too Bad.

[edit] External links

• Official site