James Gideon is an American composer, gospel recording artist and filmmaker. 

From a young age Gideon was exposed to the music of some of the great contemporary composers in film, such as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Terence Blanchard, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard and more.  And in addition to very active musical involvement in church as a singer for many years, during this time, he was also an avid fan of the male gospel group Commissioned and the solo career of original Commissioned member Fred Hammond.  All of these would significantly influence him musically. 

In 2004, he began his education at Morehouse College, majoring in music with a concentration in composition, with applied lessons in voice.  During his four years at Morehouse, he served as a member of the Morehouse College Glee Club, the official singing organization of the institution, under the direction of Dr. David Morrow, where the group would share the stage with the likes of Take 6 and Shirley Caesar, as well as regularly participate in annual engagements with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, just to name a few.  James Gideon would graduate in 2008, attaining his BA in Music Composition. 

In 2009, he would continue his music education at Columbia College Chicago, where he would learn composition and orchestration techniques for film and television under the tutelage of Hummie Mann, composer of scores such as Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.  In the Summer of 2011, Gideon traveled to Los Angeles for his final semester, where he completed his thesis project, the finalized score recorded at Capitol Records.  He would receive his MFA in Music Composition for the Screen in 2011. 

Since graduating from Columbia, James Gideon has scored the music for numerous short film projects, two of these films he has written, produced and directed.  He has also provided orchestrations for several song projects.  In 2018, he produced, recorded and released online his debut gospel album, Awesome & Mighty.