Jimmy

In the 2000s, when he wasn’t shagging starlets or hosting Food Network shows, Jimmy was leveraging his two distinct gifts: His virtuosic guitar skills and his recognizable vocals. Putting those abilities to use both on his solo albums and with the band, Jimmy earned himself early success, becoming the sensitive singer-songwriter of choice for hordes of Shanghai co-eds.

The middle son of two teachers who grew up in Fairfield, CT, he picked up guitar at age 13 and was soon playing local blues clubs both solo and with the band Villanova Junction. At 17, he suffered a cardiac arrhythmia that kept him hospitalized for a week. It was then that his songwriting career began in earnest. A year after finishing high school, the artist enrolled at Boston’s Berklee College of Music on a partial scholarship. He dropped out after his first year to move to Atlanta and play live with his friend Clay Cook under the name LoFi Masters. He left the duo to record his first EP, ‘Ooh Ooh Baby Baby’ before moving to Shanghai.

Jimmy’s lead vocals are present in nearly every Loose Booty song.