Born the 12th August 1968 near Birmingham England to a Cypriot father and Irish mother, the youngest of three children, Jims father, a hotel manager, moved around England for his job taking the family with him when he went to a new hotel every 1 or 2 years.
Jim was already entertaining from the age of 8 years old, already playing and singing songs with his guitar for family and friends and if no instrument was available then comedy and vocal imitations of John Wayne or Ronald Reagan were amongst his repertoire.
Jim had been in the choir at church through most of his younger years and although was never a soloist he enjoyed using his voice and being involved in music and if it was not music it was acting in the various school productions.
Jims first vocation was in the sporting arena, an excellent rugby player and athlete competing at national and international level.
After leaving school Jim worked as a windsurfing and mountain biking instructor in central France before going to work as an assistant sports teacher back in England and then to do the same in Australia at Riverview in Sydney in 1988.
After a year in Australia he returned to France again to the Massif Central where he was contacted by a first division rugby team who wanted to recruit him. He stayed for 3 years also working as an English teacher and at this time becoming more and more interested in music .
Jim played his first official solo concert at the hotel de la poste, owned by one of one of his friends Lisa, and was immediately a fair success finding work as a Guitarist Singer was never a problem and after 2 years of playing seasonally he said goodbye to rugby and to teaching and packed his bags for the Alps where he started Ski Guiding during the day and playing in a variety of bars and hotels in the night.
In 1995 he recorded his first album produced by Laurent Chatourel under the small label “roots force” writing only three of the songs and covering some songs that he liked at that time, this album has sold 5000 copies from the concerts that Jim and the band played. Still most of the year he played in a smaller formation of two guitarists and Jim on lead vocals.
After playing many seasons in the Alps and traveling to play in France, Belgium, Spain, Cyprus, Jim decided it was time to go to the Cote D'Azur and see if he could do something there.
It did not take long before Jim was accepted as the most versatile voice in the bay of St Tropez, playing a 2 hour solo guitar voice and harmonica show every evening in May, June, July, August and September covering the great songs of pop and rock and then playing in the piano bars of St Tropez and Monaco as the style changes to Sinatra, Lionel Richie and many more. You can often catch Jim late at night in St Tropez at the Octave Café jamming with friends late into the night.
Jims passion for music shows in the 300 concerts each year through 20 countries over 10 years as a professional musician always captivating his public with one of the 800 songs he knows and plays in such an authentic way.
His motto is :"If the people don’t clap it's because you didn’t make them want to!"
Jim lives around Europe and at the moment can be found every summer playing to 200 people per night in the bay of St Tropez and with every song he sings you will see on his face the enjoyment and determination that the music gives him.
