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About Michelle Amador

singer/songwriter

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Jul 11, 2011

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Drawing influence from prolific songwriters Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Jill Scott, Bjork, and Portishead, singer/songwriter/composer Michelle Amador has created more than 100 works to date. Beginning piano study at age 6, she wrote her first song at age 12 and by age 21 had already written a full-length musical along with music for USC productions of Buchner's Woyzeck and Sophocles' Antigone. She studied jazz piano/arranging from her father, Peruvian pianist/composer Augusto A. Amador and jazz pianist/arranger Don Haas (Stan Getz Orchestra). She studied jazz solo voice from Downbeat award-winning educator Roger Letson.

In 2004, Amador was selected as one of 60 out of 2,000 applicants worldwide to participate in the Red Bull Music Academy: Rome (a two-week electronic
music symposium). In 2005, Amador served as Creator/Artistic Director of Jazz Beyond sponsored by Adobe Systems as part of the SJ Jazz Festival, an annual free festival attended by 150,000 people each year.

In 2006, she debuted as a solo performer accompanying herself with Rhodes and sampler at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2006/2007, Amador recorded with UK producer Zed Bias and separately with German electronic group Karma to produce electronic/pop single releases featured on Gilles Peterson's Weekly World 60, PopMatters, and DJ playlists worldwide. As a composer, Michelle also collaborates across artistic mediums with her recent work, Phonological, premiering at the Laumiere Sculpture Garden in St. Louis, MO through May 2008.

On April 18, 2008, Amador released HIGHER (produced by Zed Bias) in Japan to be followed by UK release.

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San Francisco

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