James Hunter
James Hunter
Grammy Award-winning British soul and R&B singer who has worked as a solo artist as well as with Howlin' Wilf & The Veejays.
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1962
awe bit home mainstream people seem whereas
Over here, at its peak, it was the mainstream thing, whereas at home it was always a bit of an underground secret. People here don't seem to be in awe of it like we are, still.
artist emotional jackie listen mistake people realm thinking willie
People often think that every artist in that realm had the same qualities. If I want emotional intensity, I'll listen to Little Willie John, but if I want some pyrotechnics, I'll go to Jackie Wilson. It's not all the same emotional level, that stuff, which people make the mistake of thinking it is.
lunch people noise
A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away.
people authority threatened
Power people are generally threatened by authority people...
people leader never-forget
we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.
skills people influence
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.
liars people leader
...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.
skills goal people
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
company nice purpose sole
The sole purpose of the company was getting me recorded. It was extraordinarily nice of them.
difficult flattering object
Those comparisons are so ludicrously flattering that they are difficult to object to.
call modern music retro
I'd just call it modern music done in a retro way, that's all.
objection
Most people's objection was that I was in my 40s. There was nothing I could really do about that.
bit coolest dragged finally found girlfriend moments outside picture pilgrimage second sonny tenor town until
I have an old picture of Sonny Til and the second tenor from the Orioles outside the Earle Theatre. It was such an atmospheric picture, I dragged my girlfriend around town on a bit of a pilgrimage until I finally found it. That was one of my coolest moments so far.
bubbling career edge excitement kept quite seemed twenty
It seemed like my career was always on the edge of something. Twenty years of bubbling under and not quite erupting kept up the excitement for me, I guess.