JAMES FOX HIGGINS is the real thing. His passion for music was evident and unshakable from his first year of life when his parents gave him a red plastic keyboard that he bashed with reckless abandon. It wasn’t long before he was singing constantly, then learning the trumpet, then teaching himself to play guitar, then keyboard. Then bass. Then drums. The original songs started emerging at the age of 13, and pretty soon his parents knew they had made a musical monster.