L.A. James

Lynn was born, LynnQuinEtta Alissa James, in the greater metro area of Detroit, MI. Parents are Oscar James, SR and Diana L. Sanders. She started modeling at the age of three. She then got into performing arts at the age of seven. She broke into the high fashion world of modeling at the age of sixteen when she attended the Model Search of America. Having much favor she received numerous(8) callbacks form top agents like Elite, Marliyn's, T Model Management. She decided to sign with Marilyn's, a top ten agency and she was the first African- Native American model,at the time, to ever sign with this agency. Alissa, her middle name, is the name they asked her to use because LynnQuinEtta was to hard to pronounce apparently. Her debut was in the March issue of "ELLE" 2001 and she was featured on two pages. Following that she was featured exclusively in "Russell Simmons's One World" with an eight page story called "Oya". Not knowing that years later she would be working very closely with the