Amy Obenski

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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.

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