Davey James is currently finishing his PhD in ethnomusicology and holds a Masters of Fine Art in World Music from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He also holds a Bachelors of Music in Jazz Studies from Loyola University New Orleans and studied music in film at the Collage of Santa Fe in New Mexico. Davey is a multi-instrumentalist whose background producing, engineering, coaching artists and performing has led to his involvement in several projects, recordings and performances. Davey has been involved in numerous collaborations fusing everything from death metal, pop, world music, free jazz and traditional New Orleans music. His peers regard him as a supportive accompanist and a musical instrumentalist. He has performed and recorded with artists from Columbia, Wind Up and Capital records and is continuing to tour North American, Asia and Europe. On top of producing successful projects, he is continuing to coach and teach musicians that are shaping new musical landscapes today.

Raised in southeast Texas, Davey's first musical experiences began at a young age when his mother would bring him to local venues to watch blues musicians perform. As Davey got older he started to perform himself. Playing with different bands around his hometown of Houston, that is when he realized music was his calling. His music education started at the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts and led him to study drumming at Loyola University in New Orleans. Education is very important to Davey because of being raised in an unstructured alcoholic home with no education on either side of the family. Despite a learning disability and chaos of his troubled youth, Davey managed to get a master's degree and tour half the world with some well-known musicians. The creation of his second music company: Canadian Recordings. will now allow him to be of service to the next generation of musicians and help preserve music that brought his dreams to reality. Davey says "There is something magical about performing, writing and recording music for others to experience, and I'd like to capture as much of that as I can. Music has truly saved my life, and given me a new found freedom".

Much of what Davey does on the business side of music was learned by working as an intern, part-time runner and assistant while living in Los Angeles. He says “it’s not glamour work but you pick up all the things you need to know about the music business just by watching the pros”. He worked as a runner for music producers Rick Rubin and Michael Bienhorn and was an assistant to music manger Jeff Norskog (Pussycat Dolls and Puff Daddy). He was an intern for music supervisor Patrick Houlihan on the movies: Training Day, Bubble Boy and Sweetest Thing. He also built and ran a music studio affiliated with the Grammys in Malibu California.

Currently residing in Toronto, Davey is involved in many musical projects. On the local scene he is busy teaching at York University, coaching Canadian Idol finalist Christine Hanlon and training R&B singer Brownie. On the international scene he is touring Asia with bands Girl and the Machine and experimental rock group Turkey. He is also in pre-production with Japanese Canadian singer Junzi second album and in post-production with the punk band Cerebral Scrub. Besides producing and coaching under Canadian Recordings, Davey is currently mixing Bob Egan's (Blue Rodeo) latest solo project and pop rock group Nights & Weekends (MTV's Jersey Shore and The Hills).