Starring on a TV series is a full time job. It's not unusual to be stuck on the set for 12 hours--or longer--a day. Launching a solo singing career is no nine-to-five either. You can't even imagine just how many hours go into recording songs, filming videos, etc., etc.

So what happens if you're 25-year-old Jamie Walters, and you have to be on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210 practically everyday and promote your first album, while simultaneously making time to talk to members of the press about both projects?

You give up every other activity in your life, according to Jamie. "I don't have any free time," Jamie tells us. "But I'm young, and strong and I can handle it."

During the weekdays, you'll either find Jmaie on 90210's San Fernando Valley set playing Ray Pruit or tending to music matters. For example, when we spoke to him, he was in the process of looking over rough cuts of the video for his single, "Hold On."

Then, on weekends, when most people are catching up on their sleep or doind errands, Jmaie is usually catching a fight to promote his cd. He's been around the United States and even has plans to travel to Europe to spread the word.

"We're going into record stores and doing cd signings," he says. Usually he sings "Hold On," 1993's The Heights> hit "How Do You Talk To An Angel" and a few other songs.

With all this nonstop activity happening, you figure Jamie must at least go to bed early, right? Wrong! "I stay up late a lot," says Jamie. "I bring my guitar with me when I go away for the weekends to do these promo things. Sit in my hotel room and play all night. I have written a lot of songs in hotel rooms."

Yes, it sounds like a crazy schedule, but the ever-career-minded, hard-working Jamie isn't complaining. In fact, he thinks it's for the best.

Being on 90210, he reasons, gives his music a lot of exposure, "I get to play my music on the show," he says, "and on the video at the end of the show."

Okay whatever you say, Jamie, but we're exhausted.

From Bop, 1995