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A Pre-Columbian Olmec head dating from 1500 BC. (Right) Sinclair’s prized collection of Russian military uniforms.
artifacts. That’s how that collection got started.” Five years later, Sinclair had relocated to
Nashville, where he continued to find work as a musician. He also had a part in The Last Days of Frank & Jesse James, the 1986 TV movie starring Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. That same year, he also played Caesar Rodney in George Washington II: The Forging
of a Nation, a small-screen film with Barry Bostwick. “I think they were just looking for someone who knew how to ride,” Sinclair says.
It was his father’s death that drew Sinclair back home. By 1993, though, he was working
in Europe, prompted by a call from a friend, Marcella Detroit, who was making an album
in London with Elton John and a few studio heavyweights. One half of the popular late-’80s duo Shakespear’s Sister, Detroit also worked with Eric Clapton, co-writing and singing on his 1977 hit, “Lay Down Sally.”
Sinclair ended up playing pedal steel on Detroit’s 1994 album, Jewel. During his stay in England, he also traveled to Edinburg, Scotland, to visit the 15th-century Rosslyn Chapel a few miles south of the city. “Rosslyn is historically the Sinclair family chapel, so I took some time to explore it,” he says. “It wasn’t very well known then, but it became famous for its scenes in the Tom Hanks movie, The Da Vinci Code.”
Sinclair and his wife were married at Rosslyn Chapel in 1999. He’d met Ann Givens, an accomplished horsewoman and banking
exec, a few years earlier at the Willowdale Steeplechase. Not long after their marriage, she asked him about a move to Amsterdam. At the time, she was working with Deutsche Bank, and the company had offered her a transfer. While there, they did some collecting— especially hand-painted blue-and-white Delftware—and James played guitar with a local band called De Naturals.
“I
miss the crowds, but I don’t miss being on the road,” admits Sinclair, shortly after welcoming me into his
A 2015 Platinum Award from the Ferrari Club of America.
home one winter morning.
Back in Chester County, Sinclair has settled
into the role of family man. At the moment, his wife is at work in her current role as managing director of global technology at JPMorgan
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