James Taylor Bio (Biography)
Real name:
James Vernon Taylor
Date of birth:
March 12. 1948
Place of birth:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Astrology Sign:
Pisces
Height:
6' 3" (1.91 m)
Fathers name:
Dr. Isaac M. Taylor
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James Taylor is a singer / songwriter. He is best known for his solo career which he pursued as a singer and folk guitarist during the seventies. He continues to attract a large audience and has released new albums throughout the nineties, continuing to record and tour to the present day in his middle age.
James Taylor was born in Belmont, Massachusetts in the year 1948. His birthday is the twelfth of March. James Taylor comes from a musical family, with his three brothers and one sister all having been musicians as well at least at some point. When James Taylor was a young boy, he learned the guitar and the cello. He graduated from high school while being treated for depression at a psychiatric hospital, and played folk music during his teenage years, putting together an unsuccessful band called the Flying Machine (one of James Taylor's lyrics in the future would include the line "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground"). James Taylor moved to London in his twenties and released an album through Apple Records as a solo artist, but this also was a failure. During this entire period James Taylor had problems with drug addiction and was in and out of hospitals, as well as having a motorcycle accident that temporarily broke his hands.
Success suddenly hit James Taylor in the early seventies when he released his second album "Sweet Baby James" with Warner Bros. Records in California. The song "Fire and Rain" from this album made James Taylor's original album popular. Other albums followed which were by and large successful, including "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon", "One Man Dog" and "In the Pocket". James Taylor's best seller was his first greatest hits album, released in 1976. While James Taylor's popularity waned throughout the eighties, he experienced a resurgence in the nineties and early twentieth century as he overcame his drug addictions to record and tour more and his fanbase aged and rediscovered his work.
As of early 2007 James Taylor continues to record and perform music. His last released album was "James Taylor at Christmas" in 2006.
James Taylor was born in Belmont, Massachusetts in the year 1948. His birthday is the twelfth of March. James Taylor comes from a musical family, with his three brothers and one sister all having been musicians as well at least at some point. When James Taylor was a young boy, he learned the guitar and the cello. He graduated from high school while being treated for depression at a psychiatric hospital, and played folk music during his teenage years, putting together an unsuccessful band called the Flying Machine (one of James Taylor's lyrics in the future would include the line "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground"). James Taylor moved to London in his twenties and released an album through Apple Records as a solo artist, but this also was a failure. During this entire period James Taylor had problems with drug addiction and was in and out of hospitals, as well as having a motorcycle accident that temporarily broke his hands.
Success suddenly hit James Taylor in the early seventies when he released his second album "Sweet Baby James" with Warner Bros. Records in California. The song "Fire and Rain" from this album made James Taylor's original album popular. Other albums followed which were by and large successful, including "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon", "One Man Dog" and "In the Pocket". James Taylor's best seller was his first greatest hits album, released in 1976. While James Taylor's popularity waned throughout the eighties, he experienced a resurgence in the nineties and early twentieth century as he overcame his drug addictions to record and tour more and his fanbase aged and rediscovered his work.
As of early 2007 James Taylor continues to record and perform music. His last released album was "James Taylor at Christmas" in 2006.