JAMES McMILLAN After attending the Royal College of Music in London and Berklee College of Music in Boston, James started a professional career playing trumpet with SADE in 1985. Since then he has accumulated an ever growing list of credits, playing trumpet, keyboards, producing, programming, arranging writing and co-writing. Signed to a world-wide publishing deal with Hit & Run Music/EMI (Publishing) Ltd. James is becoming more and more popular as a writer/producer in the UK and the US.... So far in 2002, he has been writing and producing for various UK and US acts including.... American Idol (RCA/19) Liberty X (V2) Blue (Innocent Records) S-Club 7( 19 Records/Polydor) Kelly Clarkson (US Idol Winner) Gareth Gates ( Christmas Record!) BBC Music Recent credits include: Production and co-production with: AMERICAN IDOL ‘Greatest moments’ (Entire album) Liberty X ‘Forthcoming album tracks’ GARETH GATES ‘A Christmas to remember’ (Polydor/19) BILLIE PIPER “Something deep inside” (#4 UK Single Chart) ATOMIC KITTEN “Follow me” ( Top Ten UK Single) MARTINE MCCUTCHEON 4 Album tracks (All Innocent /VirginRecords UK) WARREN STACEY DefSoul US/Mercury UK BLUE “ Forthcoming album tracks S-CLUB 7 (19 records) RONAN KEATING (Polydor Records) BOYZONE (Polydor) BRIAN KENNEDY "Now that I know what I want" album and singles (19/Epic) ASHLEY BALLARD (Atlantic US) BEVERLY KNIGHT (Parlophone) CHANGING FACES (Atlantic US) ETERNAL (Phil Collins tribute album for Atlantic US) Arranging/programming/mixing and producing with: WHITNEY HOUSTON "Step By Step" BOYZONE "Baby can I Hold You Tonight" VAN MORRISON "album" EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL "2 albums" BRIAN KENNEDY "Now that I know what I want" album and singles ASHLEY BALLARD (Atlantic US) Trumpet playing with: SADE JAMES BROWN VAN MORRISON PAUL WELLER ERIC B & RAKIM CHAKA KHAN EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL D-MOB As well as co-writing, James has also produced his own album, "Ballads" which is a modern homage to the classic ballads of the 50's and 60's, released on the UK Jazz/Drum and Bass label Melt 2000. He is currently negotiating a label deal with a major UK label, to sign and develop new Pop/R+B artists.... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.