Birthdate

July 17 1955

Height

5ft 6 inches

Brion James was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA on July 17, 1955.

Brion comes from a long family musical background. His dad is a trumpet player. Brion himself played cello from the age of eight to 15.

In Brion's own words, this is how he came to play the guitar:

"One day I was watching the hydrofoil races in Seattle, Washington, standing about knee high in water watching the boats go by and I paid no attention to it. Then a six-stringed acoustic guitar with just three strings on it floated by and I swam out and got that...!"

"I started to fiddle about with it but I didn't really like guitar players then, because I was a devout cello player and strictly classical person. But eventually I put the rest of the strings on and learned how to tune it. At first, because a cello is tuned to fifths, I assumed the guitar was too! That could have been really interesting if I'd left it like that!

"Anyway, I eventually learned how to tune it properly and it became a whole new ball game."