"... a voice that is a blend of Stevie Nicks and Edith Piaf."

[catinthedark]

i posted this thread over on the chit chat forum, because it's about another artist. but that's how an article described her... and it's pretty accurate! so if you don't go there regularly - check it out! her name is amanda ghost - and there's a link to a sit where you can hear a few of her songs. there is a definite stevie-ness to her voice, especially on the song "time machine."

what the heck. here's the link again:

http://www.amanda-ghost.com/1.html

[MacMan]

Ooohhh I like this. Thanks for the link!

[David]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Ooohhh I like this. Thanks for the link!

I like her, too. She reminds me of Christopher Plummer reading E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" on the Caedmon label.

[saradorna]

"Her music is a blend of styles that defies categorisation, but it is her voice that makes her stand out from the crowd. According to the The Daily Telegraph: "She sings in the key of heartbreak, with a voice that is a blend of Stevie Nicks and Edith Piaf, sometimes wistful, sometimes angry but always honest," and she actually recently collaborated with Stevie Nicks on songs for her upcoming album."

Here is the link:
http://http://www.amanda-ghost.com/PAGES/CURRENT.htm

Does anybody knows about this?

Btw, thank you for the link, loving "Blood on the line".

Edit:
Also love "Deep Water" and "Time Machine". Buying this one for sure.

[MacMan]

That link leads nowhere.

Okay I figured it out: http://www.amanda-ghost.com/PAGES/CURRENT.htm

Hmmm... Wonder when her album come out?

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Hmmm... Wonder when her album come out?

may 8th in the UK... don't know about canada or the US. Her previous album is on iTunes UK and canada (haven't checked US), so I'm hoping her new one will be, too.

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by saradorna

and she actually recently collaborated with Stevie Nicks on songs for her upcoming album."

Here is the link:
http://http://www.amanda-ghost.com/PAGES/CURRENT.htm

Does anybody knows about this?

well, it says "recently." seems amanda has already learned stevie-speak! seriously, i would guess the songs will be on amanda's new album which is slated for release in the UK may 8th. in another article i read about her, it did talk about the fact that she met stevie and became friends with her (i know, i know... i should have linked to that, too! but i don't remember where i saw it. sorry )

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by David

I like her, too. She reminds me of Christopher Plummer reading E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" on the Caedmon label.

holy crap. i was thinking the exact same thing!

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

well, it says "recently." seems amanda has already learned stevie-speak! seriously, i would guess the songs will be on amanda's new album which is slated for release in the UK may 8th. in another article i read about her, it did talk about the fact that she met stevie and became friends with her (i know, i know... i should have linked to that, too! but i don't remember where i saw it. sorry )

Seems she was also in the documentary "All We Are Saying" which incidently begins running on vh1 on Monday if anyone want's to catch that.

[Richard B]

I'll take Edith Piaf or Stevie Nicks anyday over this. I think The Daily Telegraph was smoking something or paid off to tie in some marketing angle.

She sounds more like Melissa Etheridge to me.

[Livia]

Here's another article:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/revie...754545,00.html

She's the one hanging out w/ Chrissie Hynde, in "All We Are Saying." I was wondering who the heck she was...

Haunted by Beauty

Is James Blunt a gift or a curse for his co-writer?

Killian Fox
Sunday April 16, 2006
The Observer

About a year, says Amanda Ghost when asked how long it will be before interviewers stop pestering her about 'You're Beautiful', a number one on both sides of the Atlantic. She co-wrote that ubiquitous song with James Blunt in Los Angeles four years ago, and judging by the strength of anti-Blunt sentiment at the moment, Ghost might find it harder than she thinks to rise above her association with the song.

At her band's recent showcase in Soho, she was doing her best. The 29-year-old Londoner has a distinctive voice and a talent for writing songs in the vein of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Thanks to the Blunt song she need never work again but its success in the States has generated interest in her abilities. Her EP, 'Blood on the Line', is out next month. She will be contributing to the soundtracks of two forthcoming films, Perfect Stranger, a thriller starring Bruce Willis and Halle Berry, and Eragon, a sci-fi fantasy. And she recently signed an unlikely deal with Def Jam, the US hip-hop label, and has been fielding requests to write for Beyoncé and Janet Jackson. 'I told them I know nothing about R'n'B. But they don't care. All these hip-hop guys are blown away by 'You're Beautiful'. Their advice to me was, don't change - just do what you did before.'

She first met Blunt in London in 2002, and when she discovered he had never heard of Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell, she handed him a stack of albums and sent him off to do his homework. They met again at her house in LA and he sang her a verse from a song he had been writing that day about a girl he glimpsed on the underground ('called "Beautiful Eyes" or something'). What followed took an hour, 'sitting around the swimming pool with guitars, smoking dope'. Ghost wrote the words and melody of the chorus, got him to sing falsetto and made the song more downbeat. 'In fact,' she says, 'maybe that's why it's done so well - because it has the light of him and the miserableness of me. All the best songs have a bit of melancholy in them.'

Ghost has had reason enough to be melancholy. Everything seemed to be working in her favour when she released her first album, Ghost Stories, on Warner Bros in 2001. 'It was well received in the States, then Warners got sold.' She was kept on for another three years, a limbo period in which nothing much happened.

It wasn't all disaster though. She got to know Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks, who encouraged her. And her friendship with Boy George, for whom she has also written hits, is a bonus. But will Ghost ever become anything more than the woman who wrote the chorus of 'You're Beautiful'? 'I hope it's not the footnote of my career,' she says as a flicker of anxiety crosses her face. 'No, that would not be good.'

[priestofnothing]

Amanda is also on the Sweet November soundtrack (the one with Stevie's "Touched By An Angel"). Her song is called "Wrapped in Cellophane" or just "Cellophane" I can't remember the exact title, but it's a really great track. I like her voice.

[Janis_no1]

ok i cant find where to listen to her music?? oh dear... maybe its because im on a computer with bigger pixels set so its not showing me allt he things on her home page and im missing it.... i'll have a look when i get home and see