Steve Madden and Giant Step present an intimate performance by Jessie James plus DJ Lilypad.

A big talent in a petite, power-packed package, James has been ready for her close-up since she was the age of two, when the self-described, well-traveled "military brat," born under the fiery Aries sign in a field hospital in Italy, started singing into a toy microphone and tape recorder, a gift from her mom. By nine, she was composing her own songs on a plastic guitar (the first called "It's Gonna Be Alright"), performing as a youngster at events like the opening of Sea World and the Republican Convention, and working with a string of significant writers in Nashville at 15.

On songs like the twangy "My Cowboy," co-written with Mercury Nashville artist Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser, first previewed by Perez Hilton on his popular website last year, and the sassy "Blue Jeans," with its hip-hop swagger and tribal percussion -- featured on the soundtrack of the hit Touchstone film version of Sophie Kinsella's best-seller Confessions Of A Shopaholic -- Jessie shows she's not afraid to strut her sexuality, either. With her debut self-titled Mercury album, she's graduated and on her way to the stardom she always envisioned for herself.

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