Born on April 6, 1972 in Israel, Ami James spent most of his childhood days growing up in Israel as well as Egypt. His father served the Israeli army after converting to Judaism before joining the army. His father was an American by birth. It was during his army days when he met Ami’s mother and got married to her. At a very young age of four, Ami James was left alone with her mother as his father disappeared. Ami and his mother were left alone. It was this incident that helped Ami develop an interest in tattooing as he tried to follow the footsteps of his father who was also a great painter and had many tattoos.

After some years, he shifted to the United States of America to live with his grandparents and after one year he shifted to Miami. After some time he returned to Israel and served as a sniper in the Israel Defense forces. He got his first tattoo at a very young age of 15. It was after getting this tattoo, he released that he wanted to be a tattoo artist. It wasn’t until he was 20 years old that James started focusing on this career. He started pursuing the career of a tattoo artist in the year 1992, when he joined Tattoos By Lou. He learned and experienced a lot during his time there from the owner Lou. He then went on to establish the Love Hate Tattoos parlor with Chris Nunez. This tattoo parlor has also appeared in the television show Miami Ink in the year 2005. This show airs on the TLC channel. Along with being a tattoo artist, he also has many other skills too. He has also established a clothing company named the Deville clothing. He established it with his Love Hate Tattoos’ partner Chris Nunez and Jesse Fleet. He also co-owns a nightclub named Love Hate Lounge in Miami with two friends and Nunez.

The design of model RAZR V3 of Motorola mobile phone is also credited to James. He is also a part of the Love Hate Choppers Jewelry and is one of the important investors of the jewelry line. In the year 2011, he started shooting for another television show named NY Ink. He appeared in the show in the second season in the year 2012. He has also appeared on World Wild Tribe in the year 2009. He is also the owner of a studio named Love Hate Social club which is situated in London, United Kingdom. It is a tattoo studio which had guest artist like Chris Nunez and Megan Massacre. In the year 2013, he also founded a platform to get pre-designed tattoos online named Tattoodo.

Ami James has been married twice in his lifetime. His first marriage was with Andrea O’ Brian in the year 2005. The marriage didn’t last long and it ended in a divorce in the year 2006. He then got married to Jordon Kidd in the year 2006. James and his wife are proud parents of two children. According to his biography, his net worth is not disclosed.