About Jimmie Spheeris
Jimmie Andrew Spheeris (November 5, 1949 – July 4, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. Spheeris died in 1984, at the age of 34, after a motorcycle accident. == Biography == Jimmie Andrew Spheeris was born in Phenix City, Alabama, to Juanita 'Gypsy' (née Gary) and Andrew 'Curley' Spheeris, who owned and operated a traveling carnival called the Majick Empire. These childhood years of colorful transience were a major influence on later work, as evidenced in songs such as "Lost in the Midway" and "Decatur Street", among others. Spheeris had two sisters, Penelope and Linda, and a brother, Andy. After his father was murdered by a "belligerent carnival-goer," Gypsy Spheeris moved the family to San Diego, California. The family eventually settled in Venice, California. Gypsy Spheeris tended bar at an establishment on Main Street called The Circle. Spheeris had a son with Idalie Adams, James Zeus Adams, who died in 2022. Adams was a former musician, who was once the lead singer of a local band, SOS, that frequently played in the Cape Region in Delaware.
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