Amm Music Productions introduces James Anthony - Big Band Vocalist
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James Anthony is a vocalist and actor with the good fortune to have performed wonderful arrangements from the Great American Songbook and Broadway. James has worked with the finest bands, Symphonies and fantastic director in the USA and Canada. Raised in Las Vegas since 1967, James has witnessed some of the best entertainment in the showrooms of the old Las Vegas regime. Throughout the late '70s during high school, James worked in the very places that many of the stars performed such as the Circus Maximus showroom at the Caesars Palace as an usher during his teens and seeing such classic entertainment as Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, Sammy Davis, Jr., Tom Jones, Elvis and more. As a baritone singer, James is inspired by those immortal performances and he himself has reemerged as a vocalist with a new and intimate show performing as The Last Torch Singer. James Anthony's voice has a uniquely smooth resonant yet bright tone and has been called a Sinatra reincarnate. Together with his music director Carlos Lopez, they bring you a unique selection of the swingin' hits, powerful Broadway songs, romantic ballads and those ballads that tug at the heart strings known as the torch songs performing to sold-out performances.James is a former RCA Records session artist and touring artist from the 80s, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and has returned to the music industry to share his unique vocal style that is becoming lost with time. James' CD, Blue Again, but That's Life, was released in 2018 with sales and radio success.
James Anthony served our great nation as a U.S. Naval Aviation Veteran with squadron VA·122, NAS Lemoore.Discography and Listening: James Anthony's new CD, "Blue Again, but That's Life", has been released and is now for sale on iTunes and Amazon, and can be heard on Spotify and Pandora. James' CD has recorded a fantastic lineup of torch songs from the American Song Book, offering a tribute to the authors and a fresh dynamic take. You can listen to sample bites at the link that's at the top of the page CD - Blue Again, but That's LifeContact: Please join the mailing list so we may inform you of shows in your area. For all national and international inquiries about booking James Anthony, contact us at: Office: 703-944-9257 Email:[email protected] A Nice Irish Poem: "Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you."Psalm 103: 15-16 As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. Then the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
A man is shaped by the life he has lived and the role models that offer inspiration to his life. James' father provided the foundation to which has given him life's lessons and rules to live by, shaping the man into who he is today, and unknowingly, shaping his voice from life's experiences.
James Anthony was born in December 21st and lived in Queens (Astoria), New York until 1968. His family and Uncles' families then relocated to the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada. James was 8 and started music classes that year. The family entered the gaming industry and worked with individuals that showed them the ropes. They befriended many influential people within the old regime of Vegas and thus began to develop and change the way tourism was handled in Las Vegas. James' Grandfather Dempsey was the Treasurer of the Bricklayers Union between 1960 & 1970 and before leaving to Vegas, his father and uncles were Masons within the construction industry. Grandfather Dempsey was also served as a WWII Veteran. James' uncle Dale Dempsey conceived, manufactured and placed 21 and Craps video training video machines in many of the casinos during the 70s called M&D Video Systems Corporation of Las Vegas (reference newspaper article).
James' father Jack (pictured right with James' mother Mary, both in blue at table's end, at the Cal-Neva Lodge) and uncle Dale, started "Las Vegas Travel" from their investment company, "Dealers Investments", which took off in the 70s. Las Vegas Travel changed the way tourism was handled in Las Vegas. One by one, the hotels and casinos came on board to work with our family's model of bringing in gamblers to Nevada Casinos from around the USA, and thus the Gambling Junkets were born. Some of the hotels included the Flamingo, Stardust, The Mirage, Hilton Hotel, the Sands Hotel, CalNeva Lodge in Lake Tahoe, and many others. In fact, James was given a Cal-Neva Gold Card when he was 19 years old (1979) for anything with a signature. They even set James up in Frank Sinatra's room when James would visit. (as long as Frank wasn't staying there at the time). The flight into the Lake Tahoe Airport was like riding over the top of a roller coaster when it crested the mountains.
Frank and James 1976
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