🎵 Shawn James - War (cover) - New Music - REACTION

🎵 Shawn James - War (cover) - New Music - REACTION

If Godzilla could sing he would sound like Shawn.

Shawn James (born September 23, 1986) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He performs both solo and with his backing band, The Shapeshifters.

James started his career working as a sound engineer at music studios in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2012, he moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to pursue his own career as a musician. In the beginning, he busked around downtown Fayetteville. From there, he started playing in local venues and recording his own songs in a bedroom studio. Later in 2012, he released his first studio album, Shadows.

In 2013, he began working with his backing band, The Shapeshifters. He has since released three more solo albums, a live album, and five albums with The Shapeshifters. He also maintains his own record company, Shawn James Music. He achieved some notability in October 2015 when his cover of A. A. Bondy's "American Hearts", filmed in a wolf sanctuary, went viral after being posted on Reddit.

In December 2016, James had his biggest breakthrough when his 2012 song "Through the Valley" was covered by the character of Ellie in the reveal trailer for the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II. This led to the song topping Spotify's viral chart in the UK, eventually garnering over 60 million streams across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. On June 5, 2020, he released a re-recorded version of the song in the run-up to the game's release two weeks later.

The day before the game's release, a cover of the song by Australian musician Tash Sultana debuted on PlayStation Australia's YouTube channel, accompanied by a Last of Us Part II-themed music video. James' original recording of the song can briefly be heard playing on Ellie's headphones during the game's opening sequence.

James' music has also been featured on Discovery Channel's reality show Yukon Men,[15] the CBS legal drama series Reckless, and the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless. He currently has a publishing deal with Raleigh Music Group and signed to Parts + Labor Records in 2018.

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