Joelle James

Joelle James is 19 years old, and is a sophomore at Berklee College of Music on scholarship. She is majoring in Songwriting/Music Business and Performance. Over the last ten years, Joelle has performed through out Southern California as a regular National Anthem performer for all Professional Athletic Organizations, as well as various events in the Inland Valley. Joelle has been apart of Musicians Workshop since age 10, and the program helped her immensely throughout her career. Her most memorable moment with Musicians Workshop was when she was honored to sing "Georgia On My Mind" for the late Ray Charles at the Temecula Film Festival in 2001. Since then Joelle has been a Semi-finalist on "Star Search" in 2002 with American Idol runner up David Archuletta, and was a Top 40 Finalist on Season 6 of American Idol in 2007. This year Joelle will be featured at the Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival as special guest with Richie Cole Alto Maddness, and at the Bean Town Jazz Festival in Boston with Berklee's Tower of Power tribute band and continues to write music and play guitar.