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:::FROM ABC MUSIC LOUNGE:::
There’s a reason Amy Stroup’s song “Hold Onto Hope, Love” has appeared at poignant moments of ABC’s latest season. From an emotional scene as Kitty battles cancer in Brothers & Sisters to a climatic close of Private Practice, Amy’s music communicates on levels spoken words can’t reach. Far from being perpetually melancholy, Amy’s songs also uplift as with “Chin Up,” featured on Castle.
As an independent artist, Amy has released four albums under her own Solidity Music label including, The Other Side of Love | Session One. She partnered with ACM award-winning producer Nathan Chapman on the project to deliver delicately honest lyrics, pure vocals and smart instrumentation.
More recently, she has taken a less conventional approach and collaborated with a few good friends to release the next three sessions of The Other Side of Love. Sessions Two, Three, and Four of the project will house the songs “Hold Onto Hope, Love”, “Chin Up”, “Odds of Being Alone”, and more as debuted on ABC.
“I try to focus on writing simply a great song, one song at a time, and when you are working with people you genuinely enjoy and live life with, the music naturally comes and speaks,” says Amy.
::: FROM AMY STROUP::: My mom asked me when I graduated high school if I wanted help buying a car or guitar. I said without out blinking, a guitar. So we bought an acoustic/electric Taylor guitar. And haven’t looked back… That summer I did need a car, so I saved up a little more cash from working at a snow cone stand and bought a 1983 Toyota corolla station wagon, aka ” tan lightening” and drove it 900 miles from Abilene, Texas to Nashville for college. I paid $800 dollars for it. In the meantime, and in middle of touring and writing songs, I still found time to read a book or two, and graduated college with a degree in marketing and classical guitar.
:::ABOUT AMY STROUP:::
Some people just know what they were created to be. Singer/songwriter Amy Stroup is one such individual. From an early age, Amy has desired to write and perform songs. She wrote her first song at age five. Amy’s roots began in Boston, but soon her family moved on to the south. In Abilene, Texas she began her professional journey into songwriting and touring. Combining the thoughtful depth of Boston and the distinctive Texas style, she engages audience through catchy melodies and lyrics. She has a wide variety of influences ranges from Bon Iver, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, to Ingrid Michaelson, Patty Griffin, and more.
Recently, giving nod to the evolving music turntable, singer/songwriter Amy Stroup releases her fourth independent project entitled, The Other Side of Love | Session One. On this project, Amy partners once again with platinum selling, ACM award winning producer and friend Nathan Chapman to create an enduring sound seasoned with delicately honest lyrics, pure vocals and smart instrumentation. As her previous other albums, Amy wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album both melodies and lyrics. Sessions two through four of the album will be released digitally every few months in three to four song bundles, focusing on the eager digital download market. Prior to The Other Side of Love, Amy released 12 songs on Chasing Greenlights (2007). Additionally, Stroup gained notoriety on National Public Radio by Garrison Keilor’s, Prairie Home Companion as she was named “Top 20 Songwriters under 30”. Amy resides in Nashville, TN where she is active in the songwriting and touring scene performing regionally and internationally to over 6 countries world wide.
:::Things I have done/things I love:::
1. I have summited 6 mountains in Colorado all over 14000ft.
2. Loretta Lynn was the first person i met in Nashville
3. I bought my first car for $800 dollars, “tan lightning”. Toyota Corolla Hatch Back.
4.My favorite movie is a river runs through it, and the book is great too
5. In 5th grade my best friend and i started a band called “Greenleaves”
6.. I love French pedicures
7. I went to five different schools from kindergarten to my senior year
8. I love watching sec football in the fall and the titans
9. I go to a concert at the Ryman every year for my birthday.
10. I love running in the rain in the summer
11. I taught myself how to play the guitar
12 Cool to think about. 2 Cor 4:15-18 “Don’t lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
