And in doing so she’ll never lose his smile.” But she’s stuck by her one and only child. I hear the father’s gone, if he stays it’s just a maybe. “I see the lady who’s about to have a baby.
He has written hundreds above the jazz playing in Starbucks he sings the first verse of Raise a Cheer, a song he wrote after seeing a pregnant 16-year old on a streetcar. “I have three kids and a partner whom I have trials and tribulations with but I love dearly.”ĭespite his fierce struggles, James’s songs accentuate the positive. “It keeps me in touch with reality because I haven’t got one anymore,” he says. At other times, you will find him in the subway, singing for loose change. He wipes tears from his eyes as he describes his current struggles, sleeping in Tim Hortons or Internet cafés seeing his sons when he can. He has split with the mother of his children, who has taken the boys to live with her father. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.