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James Ingram (born February 16, 1952 in Akron, Ohio) is a Music icon, Multi Grammy award-winner and back-to-back Oscar nominee who inspires and touches the hearts of millions of listeners worldwide through his abundant gifts as a singer, performer, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer. In early 2009 Ingram returns to his roots with the release of his first complete inspirational CD, the much-anticipated Stand (in the Light). Inspired by the plight of the Hurricane Katrina victims, Stand features new works and “Yah Mo Be There” — his legendary, Grammy award-winning 1983 collaboration with Michael McDonald — and is the natural...

Ingram was a group of talented musicians consisting of siblings from Camden NJ. Their popularity in the New Jersey and Philadelphia areas began in the early to mid 70's and continued with varying levels of success thorughout the early 80's. The brother-and-sister ensemble did not reach any significant level of popularity either stateside or overseas, although they remained active in all areas of music making including songwriting, producing and session work. The music they did create was a hybrid of blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues. The father of the group members was a minister and the names of...

Around the time Jack Ingram started writing songs and performing, he was studying psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "Music and psychology come from the same place," he says. "It's about studying why people tick. I write songs to figure out my world, why people act the way they do, why they make the decisions they do." Lucky for us, Ingram chose a career in music-and discovered an altogether different kind of therapy. He weaved his questions about life into songs whose depth and incisive wit were matched only by their melodic resonance and insistent hooks. And instead of...