James Chance & The Contortions
James Chance, also known as James White (born James Siegfried, April 20, 1953 – June 18, 2024), was an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer. A key figure in no wave, Chance played a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene from the late 1970s on, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks (as he appeared in the film Downtown 81), The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, and James Chance and Les Contortions.
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Why This Artist
James Chance & The Contortions has 79K listeners but only 1K platform followers (ratio 65:1) — organic discovery is doing all the work. Engagement is trending upward across releases. A no wave act in the sonic world of Siouxsie and The Banshees and DEVO.
Sounds Like
Siouxsie and The Banshees · DEVO · Gnarls Barkley · Bauhaus · XTC