5ive who was raised in the small town of Earth. Texas, now touring nationwide has signed a Distribution deal with Save The City Records who does distribution through Provident Label Group a division of Sony Music Entertainment that focuses on Christian music. This deal is amazing flight for a person a few years ago who was hooked on crystal meth and crack cocaine. 5ive became acquainted with drugs at a young age. At the age of 13 he got saved but a couple years later he began to backslide. He struggled with addiction to marijuana, and cocaine throughout his teenage years. By the time he was in his twenty’s he was addicted to crack cocaine and had been in and out of jail on drug charges. While serving a 180 day sentence, he made a vow to GOD that he would not smoke anymore marijuana when he was released. Upon his release he did not smoke marijuana anymore but struggled with his cocaine addiction for about three years, and then it elevated to crystal meth. While up high on meth one night, GOD began to deal with him through his addiction. That night he was arrested and taken to jail where he realized that GOD was calling him. He also realized that he was not even a man. Even though he knew GOD was calling him, he continued to run for another month, and for that entire month he was literally up the whole time on crystal meth. One night while he was up high on meth the LORD began to show him some things, and the next morning as he was watching a Praise-a-thon on television the man on the screen (Pastor Jamal Bryant) literally began to talk to him, and that is when he knew he needed JESUS in his life so he called on the name of JESUS and him and his wife surrendered their lives to the LORD JESUS CHRIST on Nov. 7th 2010. It was on this day that Craig walked into a Church high on meth, crack cocain and alchohol and walked out a brand new man!! Because it was that day that JESUS CHRIST came into his heart and Craig was instantly delivered from drug addiction, porn addiction, alchoholism, and selfism!!! When the Lord saved Craig the Lord told him, “Show the world MY GRACE”. So Craig took the number 5 which is the biblical number for GRACE & FAVOR and added i. v. e. to it and became 5ive (which means Grace Is Victory Everlasting)!!! Craig has toured all over the U.S. doing over a hundred shows a year sharing his story of addiction, redemption, and Salvation from small churches to huge festivals like Rock The Desert in Midland, TX, Kingdom Bound in Buffalo, NY, and Jesus Fest in Clarksburg, WV. He has ministered along side the some of the biggest names in Christian music such as Marcos Witt, Lecrae, Matthew West, Andy Mineo, This’l, Je’kob and many more!! 5ive has even gone so far to stretch his talents to collaborating with Australian artist Grasp Whosoever, Ghana’s Royal Priesthood and Psykoz in France getting international airplay in numerous countries. 5ive released his Sophomore Album entitled “Ignition” in July of 2013. The album’s lead single Ignite (Light Of The World) Ft. Je’kob was well recieved and played on many FM and Internet Radio Stations!! 2013 was a great year for 5ive and it ended on a great note as he hit the road for 15 days with Je’kob, Spec, Climbing Blind, and Angelo Gonzales for the Don’t Back Down Tour in December. On June 24th 2014 Craig "5ive" James released his first album under the newly inked deal with Save The City Records entitled 'Ain't Suppose To Be Here' with many notable features! By the Grace of GOD, 5ive's new album debuted at #39 on the Billboard Gospel Charts! Shortly after the release of his new album 5ive hit the road once again on the True Story Tour which also featured V. Rose, Spec, Victorious!, and his now label mates and ministry partners RAW and Bryann & Monica Trejo!