James Leslie Moore Sr. (February 1, 1956 – June 7, 2000) was an American gospel artist.
James Cleveland, and Andraé Crouch, among many others, thereby contributing to his musical expertise & artistic craft.
In 1993, he was diagnosed with colon cancer describing that blood was passing from his body, coming out like clots, as he put it.
After recording his live album with Mississippi Mass in May 1994 in Jackson State University which was later successfully released in February 1995, several months later that same year of 1994, he experienced and was diagnosed with kidney failure, leaving him temporarily bound to a wheelchair, shortly thereafter becoming blind, and placed on dialysis three times a week.
Precisely two years after the live recording of the previous record, brought along his last album entitled "Family and Friends, Live from Detroit", which was recorded in February 1999 in his hometown of Detroit, with some of his dearest industry friends and gospel notables, such as Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Rudolph Stanfield, Jr., and Darius Twyman.