Brett James

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Brett James Cornelius (born June 5, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer based in Nashville.

A number of artists have been credited with 494 recordings. James' compositions have been included on 494 albums.

James charted three singles and released a self-titled debut album in 1995 as a solo artist.

In 2002, he returned to Arista as a recording artist, releasing two more singles. Since the early 2000s, James has primarily known as a songwriter for other country and pop music artists.

"Jesus, Take the Wheel," Carrie Underwood's 2006 hit "Jesus, Take the Wheel," which received Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

Jessica Andrews, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Rodney Atkins, Jason Aldean's editors' list also includes number one hits for Jessica Andrews, Martina Andrews, Martina McBride, Rodney Atkins, and Jason Aldean.

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Singing career

James was born in Columbia, Missouri; his father, Dr. Sam Cornelius, and his mother, Carolyn, were both physicians; his father was a surgeon. In 1986, James graduated from Christian Heritage Academy high school in Del City, Oklahoma. He attended Baylor University, pledged Sigma Chi Fraternity, and graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He attended medical school for a time in the early 1990s, but then dropped out to pursue a career as a singer on Career Records, a Arista Nashville affiliate, in 1995. He released his self-titled debut album in 1988, which also included "If I Could See Love" and "Worth the Fall." "Wake Up and Smell the Whiskey," was co-written and later released as a solo by Dean Miller in 1997.

In addition,, he appeared on two compilation albums released by Arista Nashville. The first of these was 1996's Star of Wonder: A Country Christmas, on which he performed "What Child Is This?" The other was a country-gospel album titled Peace in the Valley, to which he contributed a recording of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." This new album was also promoted by a special on The Nashville Network (TNN), now Spike. When Career Records merged with Arista Nashville in 1998, James and Tammy Graham were both dropped from it.

In the early 2000s, James returned to his singing career. After struggling to join Sixwire, he re-signed with Arista Nashville and began collaborating with producer Dann Huff. Despite being in the Top 40 of the Hot Country Songs charts with "Chasing Amy" and "After All," he never released a complete album.

Songwriting career

In 1998, James was at a low point: he had left medical school at the University of Oklahoma after one year to pursue a career, but after nine months of waiting tables and attending many open mic nights, he had no success, and he had been barred from his recording and publishing contracts. According to entertainment writer David Ross, James believed he was in the wrong industry. As the first and only writer in Bright's new publishing firm, "Teracel Music," James met with producer Mark Bright, who promised to pay him nothing to Bright's new publishing company, "Teracel Music." James was re-accepted to medical school and decided to return six weeks later. To be fair to the one-year deal, Bright begged him to write every third day. He kept his promise, later describing it as "a big creative change—letting go of the ambition of being a big celebrity and instead of writing some good songs." He wrote "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Cowboy Casanova" for Teracel, and artists such as Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, and later Carrie Underwood performed his songs, including "Jesus, Take the Wheel," and "Cowboy Casanova"; many of them were recorded by artists such as Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldeana During James' time with Teracel, he had a string of 33 songs to be recorded by major artists. For the final time in 2000, James dropped out of school for the final time. "You must go and do this... but you can't ever come back." The dean of the medical school agreed with James that his success as a songwriter was undeniable and wished him well.

He had performed on other artists in the early 2000s, including Jessica Andrews' number-one hits "Who I Am" and Martina McBride's "Blessed". In 2004, and 2006, he continued to write for other writers, with two more of his songs, "When the Sun Goes Down" by Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker, and "Jesus, Take the Wheel," by Carrie Underwood. The "Jesus, Take the Wheel" received the Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance and Best Country Song, the latter of which was given to James and the song's fellow songwriters. "It's America," Rodney Atkins' "Out Last Night" and Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova," both co-written by James, also topped the country charts in 2009. In 2010 James charted number one with Jason Aldean's "The Truth" and Chris Young's "The Man I Want to Be." In 2006 and again in 2010, ASCAP named James as their country songwriter of the year. Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, and Paulina Rubio are among the non-country artists who have recorded their work. James also co-wrote "I Love You This Big," Scotty McCreery's debut single "I Love You This Big."

James began working as a record producer in 2008, including Gracin's We Weren't Crazy, Kristy Lee Cook's Why Wait, a re-release of Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album, Jessica Simpson's Do You Know, and Kip Moore's Up All Night.

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