Take What You've Given - Music

Amy’s Fourth Album Grow To Catch The Wind 2011 Takes Her Mul­ti­lay­ered Sound To New Lev­els. A String Quar­tet Lay­ered Har­monies And Howl­ing Cello Solos All Join With Her Sig­na­ture Soar­ing Vocals Piano And Gui­tar. Amy’s Lyri­cal Con­fes­sions Pierce Through The Sonic Com­plex­ity Per­haps More Than Ever. The Album Her Most Brave And Hon­est Work Yet Is The Cul­mi­na­tion Of Sev­eral Years Of Soul-Searching A Cycle Of Death And Rebirth. Amy’s Eclec­tic Sound Draws On Her Back­ground In Clas­si­cal And Jazz And Influ­ences Rang­ing From Folk To Funk. “Music Has Always Been Engrained In My Life ” Says Amy. “It’s In My Breath. Peo­ple Ask My Influ­ences But It’s Really Hard To Say. Mozart Billy Hol­i­day Prince Bob Dylan…. They’re All In There.” Amy Began Study­ing Music In Kinder­garten And Con­tin­ued Through­out Her Child­hood Singing In Her School Choir And Tak­ing Piano Lessons. The Haunt­ing And Ethe­real Style Of Amy’s Songs Has Drawn The Atten­tion Of Audi­ences And Crit­ics Alike. Her Track Carousel From Amy’s Sec­ond Album Kite Was Fea­tured In The TV Show Grey’s Anatomy And Numer­ous Other Tracks Have Been Used Reg­u­larly For Pro­grams On MTV. Her Music Can Also Be Heard Reg­u­larly On KZSC Radio In Santa Cruz As Well As Other Sta­tions Around Cal­i­for­nia And Also In The Doc­u­men­tary Titled I Do A Mar­i­tal Dis­cord In America. Amy’s Silky Vocals Would Feel Right At Home In A Smoky Urban Bar But Those Famil­iar With Nat­ural Land­scape Of Santa Cruz Cal­i­for­nia Will Hear The Influ­ence Of Her Cho­sen Home In Her Music. Even On Days When Sun Bathes Santa Cruz’s Rocky Coast A Chill Breeze Can Seep In From The Bay And Fog Lurks In The Mountains. This Close­ness To Nature Drove Amy To Orga­nize Fundrais­ers For The Sem­per­virens Fund A Non-Profit That Pur­chases Red­wood For­est In The Santa Cruz Moun­tains For Preser­va­tion. The Ben­e­fit Con­cert Series Titled Take Back Your For­est Has Already Raised Thou­sands Of Dol­lars For The Fund. In Addi­tion To Play­ing Reg­u­larly For Her Loyal Fol­low­ing In The Mon­terey Bay Area Amy Per­forms Up And Down The West Coast Of The U.S. Includ­ing At Venues Such As Genghis Cohen In Los Ange­les And Yoshi’s Lounge In San Francisco. This Sep­tem­ber Amy Embarks On Her First Euro­pean Tour. The Song­writer Has Been Work­ing Over­time For The Last Year To Make It All Hap­pen. “I Couldn’t Wait To Fin­ish The New Album And I Didn’t Want To Put Off The Europe Tour Either. Right Now It’s Feel­ing Like I Just Need To Get Some Things Out Of My Sys­tem. I’m Purg­ing The Old To Make Room For The New.” read less