James Michael Nugent Reyne, born 19 May 1957 in Lagos, Nigeria, is an Australian musician who achieved fame as the lead singer of Australian Crawl before launching a solo career. In 1987, Reyne released his self-titled debut solo album James Reyne, which included the top-10 Australian singles "Fall of Rome", "Hammerhead", and "Motor's Too Fast". He followed with his second solo album Hard Reyne (1989), featuring the singles "House of Cards" and "One More River". In 1991, Reyne released Electric Digger Dandy, which peaked at number 3 on the ARIA albums chart and included the top-10 single "Slave". He reached number 2 on the Australian charts in 1992 with his James Blundell duet "Way Out West", before co-founding Company of Strangers. Reyne issued his fourth solo album The Whiff of Bedlam in 1994, featuring the single "Red Light Avenue". His compilation album The Best of James Reyne was released in 1992. His later studio albums include Design for Living (1999), Speedboats for Breakfast (2004), Every Man a King (2007), TCB (2010), Thirteen (2012), and Toon Town Lullaby (2020). Reyne was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2014.
