James Chance

James Chance
Chance at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Background information
Birth name	James Siegfried
Also known as	James White
Born	(1953-04-20) April 20, 1953 (age 71) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Genres	No wave, avant-funk, punk jazz, dance-punk
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Alto saxophone, keyboards, vocals
Years active	1976-present
Labels	ZE, ROIR

James Chance, also known as James White (born James Siegfried, April 20, 1953), is an American saxophonist, keyboard player, and singer.

A key figure in no wave, Chance has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks (as he appeared in the film Downtown 81), The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, James Chance and Terminal City, and James Chance and Les Contortions.^[1]