James Cassidy (also known as Jim Cassidy and Jim Kazmeyer) is an American musician and educator who is one of the founding members of the band Information Society (InSoc). He played bass and keyboards with the band from its beginning in the early 1980s until 1992, when the group released its final album as a trio, Peace & Love, Inc.

After the band dissolved, Cassidy left the music business and enrolled at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, earning an Associate of Science degree in fisheries technology. He earned a bachelor's degree in fisheries science and a master's degree in crop and soil science from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

Cassidy is an instructor and research assistant in crop science and soil science at Oregon State University, where he also runs the OSU Organic Growers Club.

In 2006, Cassidy and Paul Robb reconvened InSoc with a new lineup and released new material in 2007.

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Cassidy now professionally performing as Cassidy and The Music and previously as Bohème, was the lead singer for the band Antigone Rising from 1999 through 2008.

Early life

Cassidy grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey, a small rural town in Sussex County. She has one brother Eugene. Cassidy says that growing up near the Pennsylvania border amongst the farms and lakes influenced her as a person developing her love of nature and free spirit. She began attending a small gospel church with her Father at a young age, and that's where Cassidy began singing. Her mother's taste in music also influenced her: Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, and Southern Rock and soul from the 1970s. Cassidy sang in local bands learning the ropes from local hero Jim Kilby and when she was 18 she moved to New York City, where she worked for a short time as a waitress. When she was not working she often performed solo or with a band. She stayed in New York for about a year and then moved to Los Angeles where she got her first paying job as a singer and dancer in stage reviews written and produced by Emmy Award-Winning Anita Mann. It was around this time that Cassidy traveled through the US, South America and Europe, spending two summers in Alaska.

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