Casey James

Casey James is an American singer and guitarist, who is best known for being a finalist on the 2010 season of the talent show American Idol. From Cool and Fort Worth, Texas, James had a bad reaction to his pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine when he was an infant, and his family feared brain damage. According to his mother, however, she realized that he would be all right and was going to be musical when he started humming before he talked. Following a serious motorcycle accident at the age of 21, James was told by doctors that he would no longer be able to play guitar, a medical prediction that proved untrue. In 2010, USA Today music critic Brian Mansfield suggested that James was "arguably...the best guitar player the show has seen." James had tried out for and been selected to compete on the ninth season of American Idol in 2009 in spite of the fact that he had never seen the show.