Wendy James is a singer-songwriter, best known for her lead singer role in the late 1980s pop band, Transvision Vamp. She is currently the singer in the band Racine. Transvision Vamp James was adopted soon after birth, and left home at the age of sixteen, moving to the English seaside resort town of Brighton. Whilst there, she studied drama and English literature at college. After a year, she began singing in a nightclub, where she mainly sang Patti Smith cover songs. There she met Nick Christian Sayer. James and Sayer collaborated on songs (although Sayer was the principal songwriter). Eventually Sayer and James moved to London where they teamed up with friends, Dave Parsons, Tex Axile and Pol Burton. The five formed the pop-punk band, Transvision Vamp and James was the lead singer and focal point of the group who attracted media attention with her sexually-charged and rebellious image. The band was signed by MCA and released a cover