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Sebastian Saint James is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer based in Petaluma, California with a long history in the Bay Area music scene. He has been described as an "Indie-Soul-Blues-influenced singer-songwriter-guitarist with a voice that fuses pain, humor and heart with a certain road-weary wisdom that often hovers between haunted and hopeful".

Saint James is an award-winning musician, voted “People’s Choice Best Performer” in Sonoma County. He has received four North Bay Music Awards and an award from the West Coast Songwriters Association.

Saint James has performed alongside artists such as Everlast, Frank Black, Vintage Trouble, Jackie Greene, GA-20, and Mike Love.

In addition to regularly playing live, Saint James is also known as a founding member, front-man, and the principal songwriter of the Petaluma-based band The Highway Poets. "The Highway Poets began their musical journey as rock group Hillside Fire. While on the road, these four friends began a musical transformation from 'The Hillside to the Highway'"

Saint James is also a member of the Petaluma-based band Space Orchestra, a larger conglomeration of musicians know for performances covering an entire album, such as Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs & Englishmen."

Saint James's live album, "Live and Unsheltered," was released in 2021.

He has released several singles: "I'm Haunting," 2015; "Give Me Justice," 2018; "The Way the World Goes Round" and "Can't Hold Me Down," 2020; "Chain of Fools" in 2021; "I Was Wrong," 2022; "Golden," 2023.

The EP "Good Time To Get Down" includes the title song backed by "I Was Wrong," released in 2023.