Name: Stayed by Amity
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: A song about when you're in a damaging relationship that you know you shouldn't be in and the slow realisation that you're worth more.

A song about when you're in a damaging relationship that you know you shouldn't be in and the slow realisation that you're worth more.

Stayed

17-year-old award-winning singer songwriter Amity is the Royal Albert Hall’s current Future Maker artist and resident artist at Soho’s Spice of Life. His “dark, defiant & dramatic” sound made him ASBO magazine’s latest one to watch and his “stunning voice” (BBC Radio) & emotive performances led to The Guardian writing of his “miraculous vocals” with the “dense surreal lyricism of Regina Spektor” and to David Grant claiming that Amity is “history in the making”.

Amity’s genre-fluid sets are musically textured journeys for his growing audience, moving from poignant piano-led acoustic to full vibrant band with sax, funk guitar, heart squeezing strings & jazz-tipped bass. Though his content can be hard hitting - this outspoken lyricist uses his voice to speak up on mental health, the state of the world, abuse & LGBTQIA+ issues - ASBO magazine wrote of its redemptive quality, brought through in the defiance that simmers & erupts explosively in so many of his songs.

The “uncanny beauty” of his “exceptional songwriting”* also saw the SAYS’ industry panel list him in the UK’s top 30 young songwriters. Awarded Best Singer 23 (RBE Musical Excellence Awards), his “profound, brooding…rebellious” songs (Durham Magazine) have the “heart breaking power of Nina Simone” & “the vulnerability of Joni Mitchell” (ASBO Magazine). This “star in the making” (Lyme Bay Radio) has written with Dee Adam (Kaiser Chiefs) & Andrew Kingslow (John Legend).

Stayed

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