James Easter Bradford

James Bradford (b. James Martin Blackford in St. Louis, Missouri, USA) is an American singer/songwriter and actor. His schizophrenic birth mother put him up for adoption wherein at the age of 2 1/2 he became James Warnock. When choosing a stage name, he selected the last name Bradford under the mistaken impression it was his original birth name. Born in Missouri but raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Bradford came out of the closet in his teens. He moved to New York City at age 17 to attend The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. At 19 he was working in musical theater when he was discovered by DJ/remixer Richard Morel, who signed him to the short-lived Outsider Music label. Morel elected not to release their collaborative work, but Bradford (then going by "Easter Bradford") released it independently.