Jim Santos
Guitars  Keyboards   Percussion  Vocals  Songwriter

"Where Are You Now"  will also be on the CD with the April issue of Hardline Magazine! 

January 8, 2010 - Uploaded 2 remixes of songs from Rising Up From They Ashes. They sound better than 

what's on the record and are free to all to download :-) Check them out at our MUSIC page.  

November 5,2008 - Jim & original vocalist GLENN PIERSON have begun collaborating on recording some of their favorite cover songs. Here's a sample of Uriah Heep's -The Wizard given the NORWAY treatment !

TheWizard.mp3

Great friend and roots / R&B artist WIZ (aka Peter Knight) from down under has a wonderful new CD out titled "Forty Years" Head on over to his website and check it out! 

April 16th, 2008
The long awaited AOR project FROZEN RAIN has been released, and early reviews are calling it a classic, must have AOR Masterpeice. The album features contributions from many well known AOR artists such as Tommy Denander (Radioactive), Steve Newman (Newman), Daniel Flores (Minds Eye) &Jim Santos (Norway) . 
I added a solo at the end of "Never Be A Fool Again", and a bit of rhythm guitar in" Say That You Love Me",as well as did the mixes for those two songs and a 3rd, "Your Love". If you love melodic rock, then do yourself a favor (and Kurt), and head over to his site and pick one up now ! 

April 7, 2008 -Added some new gear pic's, I've recorded tracks for two AdryA songs, and have been writing some new material. Really trying to decide  to undertake another NORWAY album, or just let it fade away and do something new.  It's hard to spend a year writing and recording to get screwed by the label. This is the first Im talking about it, but MTM never even paid us the advance and then folded. It appears they did not even make the necessary GEMA payments for the songwriting royalties, so it looks like we wont get that either.  So we'll have to see.

Also my pal Kurt Vereecke's FROZEN RAIN album is getting released April 18th,so check it out!
I added some rhythm guitars,one solo, and mixed 2  or 3 songs. 

March 26, 2007
Wow! It's sure been busy with promotion for "Rising Up From The Ashes"! Thanks to you all, for the fantastic support and warm welcome back. I've also been busy mixing a few tracks for Kurt and Frozen Rain, and I'm about to start recording some guitar tracks for a wonderful new artist, AdryA . She has a totally unique soulful style that is melodic and  full of beautiful melodies and a moment later she seems to transform the sound into something progressive & pulsing that at first catches you unaware.....then transports  you to another place, and back again. I'm thrilled to be working with her! So check her out here: AdryA at her homepage, and at her myspace page.

I also have an all acoustic mix of "SAVE ME"-Just  Dave Baldwin & I with a acoustic guitar and a piano, a full band acoustic/pop version of the ballad "ONLY ONE I NEED" and a completely re-mastered version of our favorite track from our debut CD Night Dreams,  "HEARTBEAT" .

December 28, 2006
I'm mixing several tracks for the next FROZEN RAIN record. 

December 7, 2006
Norway is donating royalties to Music Rising.

Jim hanging with legendary producer, songwriter, guitarist Todd Rundgren

I went to a show doing  a tribute to Abbey Road featuring Alan Parsons, John Entwhistle(RIP), Ann Wilson (Heart), Dave Pack (Ambrosia) and the great Todd Rundgren. We were invited to go backstage for the after show party, and it was a big thrill to meet meet all those great players and especially Todd. We had a few moments to chat and snap a few pics. My wife and I were so glad to meet Todd that we forgot(?) to take pics of everyone else!

I've added some guitar to tracks for the new CD from singer/songwriter Laura Diamond. I love her stuff, and feel lucky to have been able to play on a few tracks. She has a very cool modern alt/folk thing happening. Laura's new CD "FLOWER GARDEN" IS  NOW OUT - BUY A COPY!!!