I was born in Sussex, but did a lot of gigs in the Brighton area, I was influence by Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Delta Goodrem, and play piano and sing, I had a formal education and learned about piano and voice, I started with classical voice and training. 3 New records, Live for now, the acoustic album, & belle époque, is a co write with Maggie K De Monde, who was with Scarlet Fantastic in the 80's. No memory.........Belle époque brings me to a beautiful new era, and its time to embrace that, I met my other half, and I knew it was meant to be, and that song signifies this change..... I co wrote "Without You" with Andy Ross, as a kid I came up with melodies while I was running or walking, develop a melody, then go to the piano, and the lyrics most time comes last as the music is where the emotion is for me. Nature is a good influence on music. The London music scene is a great diverse area for music, there are lots of pubs and venues, open mic nights are really good for testing things out.    Over the next year I would like to mix in some good cover songs with my own material, and find some great places to play that has a good sound system and sound engineer. To find an act that I can support on the road. I am most excited about my new albums coming out, and getting out and doing gigs and promoting my music, and publishing, and got my music on Holly Oaks, a television show. Just got my track "Summers Day" through Leopard Music!   I like the Goo Goo Dolls, Foo Fighters, Michael Jackson,  I like River Dance, how can they dance on an oil drum! the music is uplifting and has a great story!       Songs by Amanda Living the Dream Without you Relentless Summers day   Links https://soundcloud.com/amandashaw-1 https://www.facebook.com/amandashawmusic?fref=ts