BIO
Here’s my on the spot bio I’m making up right now:
I like people. I like watching things and taking it in and interpreting it and then playing it out again in a tangled or new way. I used to carve wood with chainsaws, turn dead trees that weren’t much use anymore into artwork…. animals and people and furniture, big sculptures that went in or outside of homes all over. I started when I was 17 and did that for three years, seven days a week. Then one night late in the studio the master sculptor who runned the shop told me the most important thing he ever learned was that a person must follow their number one passion, that you can only be truly great if you pour everything you have into something and not have a back up plan, not push it to the side, just do it. And it resonated, I knew ever since I can remember that I wanted to be a songwriter, a piano player, a singer - that was what woke me up at nights and played through my mind in the mornings and so in the next breath I told him I was quitting the apprenticeship, I’d finish the sculpture and after that sell everything I have and get a guitar. And did. Started playing open mics, moved from Carson City, NV to the big city of Reno (woo!) and played out as much as possible, wrote like crazy, threw myself in. Missed an open mic and walked into another coffee shop down by the river and started playing in the corner… funny enough it turned into a Sunday night gig where they payed us twenty bucks and my friends and I would bring our little Radio Shack microphone and amp in and hold it up for the other person while they were singing. Fancy times. Have lived in cars since (more times than I count on my hands actually), have thrown myself in without a real plan or knowledge of how it would all work but somewhere in there it feels like it was right, that maybe there is a smarter, more logical way of doing things, of living life, but I feel pretty grateful looking back at the wild ride. Learning to go with the flow, and keeping this desire and trust in my heart alive and letting it light the way.
Since then I’ve had some luck to meet wonderfully inspiring songwriters who I’ve looked up to and learned from. Have also played for so many wonderful folks all over the world, across the US and throughout Europe and Japan. It is a wondrous dream. (Please don’t wake me).
I just finished my new album with Jacquire King as a result of winning this last year’s NPR Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. Jacquire has recorded so many amazing records… Kings of Leon, Cold War Kids, Modest Mouse, Norah Jones, MuteMath, and my favorite, “Mule Variations” by Tom Waits which is brilliant, the sounds of the instruments and the room make me weep.
Thanks for listening and caring for what I am doing. It means so much. And please free to visit my website and share it with your friends, you can sign up for the newsletter and get some free music as well over there.
Thank you! Be well. I like you a lot.
Amber
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