Welcome To Michelle James Music!

At the age of four, I used to sit at my dad’s grand piano and bang away on it imagining beautiful sounds instead of the clunk of non-chords.  I knew all through my life that if I didn’t learn to play I would regret it.

But life wasn’t favourable for learning to play an instrument.  In fact, I only really started to relearn the piano scales and learn some chords in my fifties.

 But, I have written songs all my life.  They are everywhere.  On bits of paper, in notebooks, on old tapes and recording devices of all sorts.

New ideas and melodies for songs come into my head all the time. I never did learn the piano well, but thankfully I taught myself enough to at least put chords to my songs and play them, even if not brilliantly! 

I did learn to sing however, and voice is my main instrument.  My mum was a fantastic singer of light opera, folk and classical who won many awards. She trained me and I enjoyed playing main parts in school musicals and operas, and we enjoyed singing together sometimes, bringing joy to people in old people’s homes. I don’t consider myself to be at her level.  Also, I am older now.  I’m not considering Britain’s Got Talent or X-Factor or anything like that.  However, I love to sing and perform and bring a message to people in song. Sometimes it’s a story, a song about a social issue, a sad experience, a happy message or a message of faith. If it makes people think, touches their heart or emotions, gives them something to relate to, or brings a sense of peace, healing or happiness, then I’ve done my job and that’s marvellous.  ‘Keep on keeping on’ as my mum used to say.

So now I’m in the process of getting some songs produced and  hopefully into the listener space.  But my voice isn’t silent! In the meantime, you can hear it on The Christian Wellbeing Show podcast on apple, Spotify and most podcast platforms. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-christian-wellbeing-show/id1728485666