Biography
Amanda has a unique heart-felt style of Folk/ Soul/ Rock, Modern Woodstock that she blends into real
music, touching on real issues. She has been described as having the vocal beauty of Joni
Mitchell, the soul of Joss Stone, but the bite of Janis Joplin.
AMANDA BAKER is distinguished by her powerful soul / blues voice, her unique
song writing style, thought provoking lyrics and inspirational melodies.
She sings about her life and experiences with maturity, depth and soul.
Born in New Zealand, raised in Perth, and now based in Sydney, Amanda
Baker has been entertaining from a very young age. Amanda started
writing songs at 10 years ago and has gone from strength to strength since then, winning of 'Best Live Act' at the 2007 Musicoz Awards
and being named as the woman to watch.
Ms. Baker has well and truly been making her mark on an international scale
after also winning 'Best Music Video' for her song 'Addictions', at the 2007
Digifestival in Florence, as well as being the closing act for the film festival.
Ms. Baker has recently written a song for the Australian feature film 'The Waiting City' filmed in India. The song 'The Beauty of Life' is performed by Isabel Lucas and Joel Edgerton who play musicians in the soon to be released film, which will debut at the Toronto Film Festival.
Her lyrics both witty and catchy profess the
comments of a girl who doesn’t stumble on her words and declares to the world “I’m not
here to be a princess, I’m here to be the Queen”, taken from her new single “The Queen”.
This is the slogan on her t-shirts, of which won ‘Best Swag’ at the IMA’s (USA).
In 2005, Amanda spent 10 months in Sydney writing and recording her debut album
'SUPERSTITIOUS WOMAN'. The album fuses her blues, rock, gospel influences into an original,
contemporary, groundbreaking sound. Each song has it's own unique style and story, and
demonstrates her versatility and range as a vocal artist and writer.
The cover of her debut album shot by her brother cinematographer Denson Baker ACS won
‘Best Album Art’ photography at the IMA’s(USA).
Ms. Baker has once again emerged from the studio with another groundbreaking track
‘God Only Knows’. This gospel ballad caught the attention of James Harkness, Director of
the up-coming feature film ‘Birthday’. He not only asked to use this song as the feature track
but has signed her up to write the Soundtrack for the film, which is due for national release
early next year.
Ms. Baker will be launching 2 EP’s in the next month, one a fully produced collection of songs
produced by 3 different producers and co-produced by Amanda herself.
The second being an in the studio live recording of her and her 6 piece band, capturing
what they do best ‘playing live’.
Ms. Baker is currently performing the Led Zeppelin tribute tour around NSW with some so
Australia’s best musicians, including Peter Northcote music oz winner on guitar and Steve
Balbi of Noiseworks.
Digifestival Jury Member, Roli Mosimann (Producer of Faith No More, Smashing Pumpkins)
said, “Amanda Baker impressed me most with her abilities and rare talent of transporting
the emotional content of her music straight to the heart, without filters or distractions. She is
not just singing a great song about a difficult subject, she is telling a story and lets you feel
and participate in what it all means to her in a way only great musicians can do. Beware!
A truly addictive voice.”
The girl is soon to become one of the truly iconic voices of Australia, and a musical career
that will last her lifetime and beyond……
Instrumentation
Amanda Baker- Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Kristan Linehan - Keys and Vocals
Kirk Olsen - Drums
Rodrigo Machado - Bass Guitar
Luke Bourne - Electric Guitar/ Percussion
Giles Brunning- Lead Guitar
Dayana Linehan - Backing Vocals
Discography
2006-Released her Debut Album 'Superstitious Woman'
2007- Released Single 'The Queen'
2008 - The Queen received radio play in Australia, Canada and the USA
2007-2008 Live broadcast 'Addictions' on RAGE and international screening at Digifestival in Italy and in Canada
2008- Amanda released 2 EP's back to back.
One being a live recording with her 6 piece in the studio.
The other a compilation of songs she has worked with different producers, each displaying her versatility and vocal range.
Sept 2009 - Released new single 'Must be Something' and 'The Fool'
Links
| http://www.myspace.com/amandabakersmusic |
| Addictions Music Video |
| The Making of 'Addictions' music video |