Name	Casey James
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	31-May-1982
Place of Birth	Plano, Texas, U.S.
Famous for	Singing

Casey James is an American singer and guitarist from Fort Worth, Texas, who was the third-place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol. He released his eponymous album in March 2012 from which two singles, "Let's Don't Call It a Night" and "Crying on a Suitcase", were released. James was born in Plano, Texas on May 31, 1982 to Debra "Bybee" and Beau James.

The family moved to Princeton, Texas, but after his parents divorced when James was about four, his mother raised him and his brother Billy Cole in Cool, 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 the theme song from M*A*S*H. James was a contestant on American Idol during its ninth season. He made it to the Top 3 before being eliminated on May 19, 2010. James had tried out for and been selected to compete in the ninth season of Idol in 2009 in spite of the fact that he had never seen the show. He was the oldest contestant to be selected for the Top 24 of the ninth season at the age of 27. James was voted off of the competition on May 19, 2010, and finished in third place. During the finale of American Idol, he performed a duet of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Bret Michaels. USA Today music critic Brian Mansfield suggested that James was "the best guitar player the show [American Idol] has seen."