Jessica Rose James was born April 12, 1988 on a military base in Vicenza, Italy. James relocated to Warner Robins, Georgia in the late 1990s. She made weekly trips to Nashville to hone her songwriting. Her demo recordings soon made their way to David Massey, president of the rejuvenated Mercury Records, who subsequently brought her to the attention of Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid. James soon inked a contract with Mercury, and the label partnered her with songwriter Kara DioGuardi to help craft material for a debut album. James is of Italian, Brazilian, Irish, German, French-Canadian, and Native American descent. Jessie James' first single called "Wanted" was released in April 12th, 2009 in stations from U.S. and on May 12th, 2009 on United States and Canada iTunes. Her song, "Blue Jeans" was featured on Confessions of a Shopaholic soundtrack. In June, 2009 she toured with Jonas Brothers. Her debut album, Jessie James, was released on August 11th, 2009, for Mercury Records. Jessie is currently in the studio working on her sophomore album. The follow-up to the #1 Pop iTunes debut album containing the hit singles "Wanted," "I Look So Good (Without You)," and "My Cowboy" is tentatively set to be released this summer. She will be working with some familiar names, such as Mitch Allan (who produced "Wanted" and has worked with Faith Hill and Daughtry), John Rich (who produced "My Cowboy" and has worked with Jewel and Gretchen Wilson), Ted Bruner (who produced "Bullet" and "Girl Next Door" and has worked with Katy Perry and Hinder) and John Fields (who produced "Inevitable" and has worked with P!nk and Miley Cyrus). "I only want to be wanted by you," belts out 20-year-old Georgia stunner Jessica Rose James, better known as newly minted pop diva Jessie James, on "Wanted," the first single from her Mercury Records/Island Def Jam Music Group (IDJ) debut album, and it's love at first listen. On songs like the twangy "My Cowboy," co-written with Mercury Nashville artist Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser, first previewed by Perez Hilton on his popular website last year, and the sassy "Blue Jeans," with its hip-hop swagger and tribal percussion--featured on the soundtrack of the hit Touchstone film version of Sophie Kinsella's best-seller Confessions of a Shopaholic--Jessie shows she's not afraid to strut her sexuality, either. She points out that lyrics like "Gimme some like I never had" ("Wanted") and "Saddle up and take me for a little ride" ("My Cowboy") may be just what they say, suggesting the latter could well be about hopping on a horse. Working with producers like Julian Bunetta (Hillary Duff, Sean Kingston), John Rich, and Mitch Allen, James' debut album shows off a variety of musical styles and sounds, from the arena-rock belt of "Wanted," the mix of banjo, fiddle and rock guitar in "My Cowboy" and the hip-hop beat and playful schoolyard rhyming of "Blue Jeans" to the torch song ballad "Guilty" and the stark, stripped-down, soulful blues intimacy of "Liar." Co-written with Josh Kear, who penned Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats," and Mark Irwin (Garth Brooks), "Guilty" is similarly a song that turns the tables on the usual tale of women as victims, deciding, in no uncertain terms, what's good for one is good for the other, with telling lines like, "I feel everything/But guilty." For Jessie James, music is her life, her passion, her lover. She won't even date, with her focus saved strictly for her career. She has no other choice. And now, she is fully prepared to see all those childhood dreams finally come true. "I'm losing patience/Over the time you've wasted," she wails in "Wanted" about a recalcitrant lover, but she may as well be talking about the release of her new album. For Jessie James, school's out. With her debut Mercury album, she's graduated and on her way to the stardom she always envisioned for herself. "I just want to be wonderful," she writes on her MySpace page. Jessie James' self-titled bow proves she's more than ready to seize her moment.