James & Abba

James LoMenzo and Mark “Abba” Abbattista are a team of Rock Star/Lawyer on the 21st season of The Amazing Race.

James

 * Age: 53
 * Hometown: Scituate, MA.
 * Connection to your teammate: Friends
 * Current occupation: Professional Musician – former band member of White Lion and Megadeth.
 * Describe what you do: For the past 30 plus years I’ve been a professional touring musician. I’ve toured and recorded with some of the most popular, iconic artists, such as White Lion, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, David Lee Roth, Black Label Society, Megadeth, Bobby Brown and DMC (to name more than a few). I’m also founder of Monster House Productions, a video production company geared mostly towards the musical instrument manufacturing sector. We do product demos, instructional videos and just about everything else to help companies promote their products and services.
 * Favorite hobby: Photography
 * Word to describe you: Gregarious and reliable.
 * What is the accomplishment you are most proud of: My career as a professional musician.
 * What famous person reminds you of yourself: Me
 * What famous person reminds you of your teammate: Jack Sparrow
 * What scares you most about traveling: Not much scares me about traveling. I’ve gotten accustomed to it over the years.
 * What excites you most about traveling: Seeing new places and meeting new people.
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: I don’t think we will have too many challenges. We work pretty well together.
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: He’s too handsome.
 * What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Africa, because I have never been.

Abba

 * Age: 45
 * Hometown: Denver, CO
 * Connection to your teammate: Friends
 * Current occupation: Entertainment Lawyer
 * Describe what you do: I negotiate and draft various music-related contracts and licenses. I help create and develop business strategies and touring opportunities for music and entertainment clients.
 * Favorite hobbies: Baseball, traveling and photography.
 * Three words to describe you: Charming, funny and sarcastic.
 * What is the accomplishment you are most proud of: Being with my wife since we were 14 years old and my children.
 * What famous person reminds you of yourself: I look like John Lennon or Jesus, but I have the personality of Scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz.”
 * What famous person reminds you of your teammate: James LoMenzo
 * What scares you most about traveling: Foreign medical care being sub par.
 * What excites you most about traveling: New sights, sounds, smells and meeting new people. Plus, I like getting my passport stamped!
 * Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on The Race together: I don’t foresee any.
 * Pet peeve about your teammate: His pink suitcase! (He swears it's salmon.)
 * What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Antarctica and the Himalayas – I can’t think of anything more spectacular.
 * What do you hope to accomplish by running The Race (other than winning one million bucks)? I hope to make my children proud of me.

Season 21

 * Leg 1: 6th
 * Ping Pong: Abba
 * Eat Frog Fallopian Tubes: Abba
 * Arrived 6th.


 * Leg 2: 6th
 * Who likes to party?: James
 * Ice by the Pound


 * Leg 3: 4th
 * Serve A Padang Meal: Abba
 * Lion's Head
 * Arrived 4th.


 * Leg 4: 1st (Fast Forward)
 * Rat Collectors
 * Arrived 1st and won a trip for two to Antigua.


 * Leg 5: 1st
 * Build and Balance Scale: Abba
 * Bamboo Jungle
 * Arrived 1st and won a trip for two to Malaysia.


 * Leg 6: 3rd
 * Scrub It
 * Serve Turkish sherbet: James
 * Arruved 3rd.


 * Leg 7: 6th (Non-Elimination)
 * Synchronize
 * Trees of Love: James
 * Arrived 4th, but could not check-in because they lost their passport. They were dropped to last but were not eliminated.
 * Leg 8: 6th (Eliminated)
 * Unknown.
 * Calculate Times: Unknown
 * Unknown
 * Arrived last and were eliminated.

Memorable Moments

 * At the travel agency in the beginning of Leg 6, James & Abba accidentally left all their money on the travel agent's desk and Natalie & Nadiya picked it up forcing James & Abba to beg for money. They recovered from this setback and were able to continue on.
 * On Leg 7, their cab driver that took them to the Roadblock location drove away with their possessions left in the cab without paying their taxi fare. James and Abba claimed their passport was stolen rather than misplaced in Toni & Dallas' case. They told the taxi to wait for them but it the end drove off. They also claimed that the taxi was a gypsy taxi since the taxi nor the man driving it had a tracking number tied to the police station in Moscow and their possessions were never reclaimed. They were eliminated from the race on Leg 8.

America

 * First team to run an entire leg without a team member's passport.

Season 21

 * Lowest finish by a team who won a leg, 6th place.

Trivia
Abba now co-hosts a podcast about The Race with Mona (from Mona & Beth from TAR 22) on TV Talk.