Amy Ann 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 that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, cha ...
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
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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 single made famous in 1983 by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, written by Robert Hazard in 1979, with some of the lyrics changed by Lauper. It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's debut 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