Amy Hart is a Chicago-born singer-songwriter who currently resides in Nashville. After performing as a
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
musician at festivals, she formed her first original music band, Amy Hart and The Attack, before creating Amy Hart and the Essential Trio in the late 1980s.
Amy Hart's debut solo album, ''Every Beat of My Heart'', was released in 2000 under the Painted Rock Records label after she moved to Nashville, and re-released in 2001 by Orchard. A
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
album showing rock and blues influences, it was followed in 2011 by ''Congratulations'', her second solo album which retained a country and rock flavor, but focused on the blues.
In 1980's, Amy Hart recorded the song "Too Cruel" for the ''
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a song written, recorded and performed by American musician Robert Hazard, who released it as a Single (music), single in 1979. It is best known for the version of American singer Cyndi Lauper, who covered the s ...
'' soundtrack. The song was written with
Tim Tobias.
Discography
* ''Congratulations'' (2011), Painted Rock Records
* ''Every Beat of My Heart'' (2000), Paint Chip
* "Too Cruel", ''
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Soundtrack)'' (1985), PolyGram Records/Mercury Records
* "Sad Love Song", ''Chicago Rocks Volume One'' (1980), WLUP-FM98
References
External links
AmyHart.com(Official site)
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American women singer-songwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women