Colin James

Colin James Munn was born on 17 August 1964 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and emerged as a blues‑rock singer. After leaving school in Grade 10, he seized a break in 1983 when Stevie Ray Vaughan’s scheduled opening act failed to appear; Colin James Munn and his local band Flying Colours stepped in, and Stevie Ray Vaughan later invited him to join the tour as a permanent opening act. In 1987 Colin James Munn won the CASBY Award for Most Promising Artist, and the following year he released his self‑titled debut album Colin James, which produced several international singles. His second album Sudden Stop (1990) continued that momentum. In 1993 he launched Colin James and the Little Big Band, a swing‑influenced project that yielded gold records in 1998 and 2006, and a Christmas album in 2007. Subsequent releases include Bad Habits (1995), National Steel (1997), Fuse (2000), Traveler (2003), Limelight (2005), Rooftops & Satellites (2009), Fifteen (2012), Hearts on Fire (2015), Blue Highways (2016), and Miles to Go (2018). The album Blue Highways topped the Roots Music Report blues chart for ten weeks, and Miles to Go entered the top ten blues charts in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Colin James Munn has earned seven Juno Awards out of seventeen nominations, received multiple Maple Blues Awards, and was appointed a member of the Order of British Columbia in 2024.

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