James Taylor, born March 12, 1948, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Taylor's career began in the mid-1960s, but he found his audience in the early 1970s, singing sensitive and gentle acoustic songs. He has retained a large audience well into the 1990s and early 2000s, when some of his best-selling and most-awarded albums were released.  This item comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.