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Amanda Overmyer
Amanda Lindsay Overmyer (born October 26, 1984) is an American rock singer-songwriter who was the eleventh place finalist on the American Idol (season 7), seventh season of ''American Idol.'' Biography Overmyer grew up in Camden, Indiana, and attended Delphi Community High School in Delphi, Indiana. She began singing in bands as a teenager, and followed the styles of Southern rock musicians that her dad listened to, like Bob Seger, Kansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Led Zeppelin. She often played at Motorcycle rally, biker rallies. She eventually left music, and earned nursing degree from Ivy Tech Community College and started to work in healthcare. ''American Idol'' Overview She tried out for ''American Idol'' to give music one more try. She became known as the "biker chick" and her sound was compared to Janis Joplin. Overmyer was eliminated on the March 19, 2008, episode of ''American Idol'', putting her in 11th place. The ''American Idol'' judges have often compared her sound to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals. Author Scott B. Bomar speculates the term "southern rock" may have been coined in 1972 by Mo Slotin, writing for Atlanta's underground paper, ''The Great Speckled Bird'', in a review of an Allman Brothers Band concert. History 1950s and 1960s: origins Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of the American South, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South. However, the British Invasion and the rise of folk rock and psychedelic rock in the middle 1960s shifted the focus of new rock music away from the rural south and to large cities like Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. In the 1960s, rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
