- Birth nameJames Russell Mercer
- Nickname
- Jim
- James Mercer is known for Wish I Was Here (2014), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Garden State (2004). He has been married to Marisa Kula since April 2006. They have three children.
- SpouseMarisa Kula(April 2006 - present) (3 children)
- His music is heavily featured in Zach Braff's directorial debut Garden State.
- Founder, guitarist, and singer-songwriter for the rock group The Shins. He has also been involved with the group Broken Bells, among other projects.
- He sang backup vocals on several tracks on Modest Mouse's album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
- He traveled a lot as a child because his father was in the U.S. Air Force. His first serious band was called Blues Roof Dinner.
- He married designer Marisa Kula in 2006; they have three daughters together.
- For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
- The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.
- My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
- Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
- As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
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