Veteran gospel/jazz singer James Bowman III offers inspiration on a multitude of levels in his life and career. Having survived a tumultuous childhood and homelessness, he earned a master’s degree and has built a resume playing drums with Brian McKnight and jazz and gospel greats like Virtue, Mervyn Warren and Eric Essix while opening for Tramaine Hawkins, Edwin Hawkins, BeBe and CeCe Winans and Kirk Franklin. Closing in on 20 years since his debut album EXPERIENCE: MY PERSPECTIVE, the devout Christian artist makes a lilting, soulful appeal to our higher natures on his new single “Better.” Combining his soothing lead vocals with soaring female gospel singers, the emotional piano driven ballad reassures us that even with our profound disagreements, we can and need to become “one people, one mind.”
