Sylvia St. James has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 2 May 2013. Sylvia St. James's music has been featured on 21 episodes.

Sylvia St. James is an American soul singer, born and raised in Waukeegan, Illinois. Later in life she would re-locate to the Los Angeles area and for a year and a half would live in an Ashram. Reflecting on this period Sylvia revealed that “…It was while I was at the Ashram that I got seriously involved with music. It just happened that everyone I lived with was a musician and when the Ashram broke up, I made a…