Jim Bianco

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It seems to me that, these days, there are more singer/songwriters out in the world than there are normal, well-balanced people. Rock n’ Roll is everywhere. Everybody and their brother has a guitar, a website, a Myspace page, a CD, a venereal disease and a video. So as I sit down to write my BIO, it feels a bit like I’m meticulously handcrafting a piece of sand to
take to the beach.

Alas, ladies and gentleman, let the self-declarations begin:
I’m a singer. My voice is raunchy sometimes, and other times less raunchy. Regarding this declaration, here’s a David Byrne quote that I really like:

“The better the singer, the harder I find it to believe what they’re singing”

I think he’s cool.
Go figure….

I write songs. Sometimes about love, sometimes about sex, sometimes about stalkers, or music or folly or the Devil. I notice that most songs around are about love, which reminds me of another quote, by Frank Zappa:
“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do
something, we’d all love one another.”

Frank was cool, too.

I wish someone was keeping track of how many songs I’ve listened to in my life, so I could tell you here. A music bio would be the PERFECT place for such information- I don’t know the number, but I know there are plenty of folks who have influenced me- Billie Holiday, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, David berman, Jack Gilbert, Imogen Heap, Gary Jules, jack Tripper, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, Jurassic 5, and the list goes on…

Another quote:

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-goethe

Indeed.

I was born in Brooklyn, eventually went to music school in Boston and now I
live in the trendy desert known as Los Angeles. I spend most of the year traveling, playing shows, meeting people, avoiding
people, driving, eating and trying to get my music out to as many music-lovers as possible.

I’ve had some LUCK- I’ve traveled through JAPAN and the UK several times with my music and some friends, had some placements in movies like WAITRESS and on TV networks like BRAVO and HBO, been played on a bunch of radio stations, had some great reviews in magazines like BILLBOARD and the LA WEEKLY, been part of the Hotel Café scene since it’s inception, found a booking agent, played my local indy station KCRW, and met a bunch of fantastic musicians who have become my good friends. which reminds me of a quote my guitar player Kenny once overheard:

“..the life of a musician, not much of a future, but a helluva past.”

Kenny told me a great story once. He was having a conversation with a woman on a plane and she asked him “what do you do for a living?”, Kenny said he was a musician. She said “Oh, do you have a real job?” and he said “No, I have a real life.”

BRILLIANT!

Well, that’s my bio.
Cheers, and hope to see you at a show soon.
word!
jb

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