![]() ![]() The album's first single, " Wanted", produced by Allan, had been released in April and peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.ĭecker later performed in the Middle East with singer Kid Rock and comedian Carlos Mencia for US troops stationed overseas. Slant thought that the album only superficially pulled together influences from pop, country and hip-hop while failing to pander to any of those audiences. Allmusic received the album positively, but found that despite being marketed as such and featuring some country-influenced production, the music on the album was a far cry from country music. The album received mixed receptions from critics. The album also featured writing credits from Decker and seasoned pop songwriter Kara DioGuardi and Mitch Allan, among others. It was a fusion between country and pop music, with more emphasis placed on the latter as dictated by her label. Her debut album, Jessie James, was released in August 2009, debuting at number 23 on the Billboard 200. She described herself in an interview as "a country girl at heart," having grown up listening to this music. She described the recording process as "intense" due to the genre crossing. She also claimed to have been asked to sound like pop singer Britney Spears. Įven though she originally thought that she would be producing a country record, Decker was later told to record a pop album by record executives. Decker soon signed a contract with Mercury Records. ![]() She auditioned for Reid by singing her song "My Cowboy", produced by John Rich. One of her songs, "Gypsy Girl", was written with two writers from Yellow Dog and made it into the hands of record executive David Massey, who brought her to the attention of L.A. ![]() At age fifteen, she made weekly trips to Nashville to hone her songwriting skills.Īt seventeen, Decker was introduced to Carla Wallace of independent label Big Yellow Dog Music, who helped her with her songwriting and singing. By then, she had already been writing songs on a plastic guitar and had performed at SeaWorld and in Warner Robins, Georgia in 2000. She won her first talent contest in Baker, Louisiana, at age nine, singing " I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart". Decker has two younger siblings, Sydney Rae Bass (born 1991) and John James (born 1994), two stepsiblings, Ashley and Alex Parker (from Steve's first marriage) and two siblings-in-law, Anthony Bass and Alison James (formerly Green).ĭecker began singing when she was two. She graduated from Warner Robins High School in Warner Robins, GA in 2007. As a result, she lived in Iowa, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia. Her stepfather, Steve Parker, who Karen married in the early 2000s, served in the U.S. Early life ĭecker was born Jessica Rose James on April 12, 1988, in Vicenza, in the Italian region of Veneto on an American military base to her mother, Karen Johnson and father Robert James. On November 2 she released her second holiday EP Decker the Halls. On Septem"Grow Young With You" was the first official track from the Big Yellow Dog/Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville recording artist since the release of her The Woman I've Become EP the previous year. The project spawned a headlining tour, which wrapped in August 2022 after hitting major cities across the nation. On October 22, 2021, she released the EP The Woman I've Become. On This Holiday, her first full-length Christmas album, was released on October 26, 2018. On October 13, 2017, she released her second full-length album and first for Epic Records, Southern Girl City Lights. On Epic in 2017, she released a five-track EP, Gold, followed by a collaboration on Austin John Winkler's 2016 song titled "Howlin'" from his debut EP Love Sick Radio and released a surprise live EP on June 9, 2017, titled Blackbird Sessions. On April 18, 2014, Decker released an EP through iTunes entitled Comin' Home. A few years later in 2013, she starred with her husband Eric Decker, a wide receiver in the National Football League, in the E! reality show Eric & Jessie: Game On. She released her debut album, Jessie James, in 2009. One of her songs attracted the attention of Mercury Records, which offered her a recording contract. At age 15, after auditioning for and being rejected by most of the country labels in Nashville, Tennessee, Decker began working with Carla Wallace of Big Yellow Dog Music. Jessica Rose James Decker (born April 12, 1988) is an American country pop singer. ![]()
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