Amalia

About Amalia

Amalia Fleming’s honey-covered vocal tone and sweet melodies lure us in with the promise of more to come, but then something even more surprising and powerful begins to emerge as each well-crafted lyric unfolds.  The vulnerability, charm, and beauty of her persona surrender to a quiet defiance and confidence as she reflects on love and heartbreak, youthful confusion and optimism, and the precarious state of our world.  She gathers all these elements into her songs and uses them as fuel for her creativity. She takes the problems of the heart and creates a solution with the song.

As music columnist Glen Starkey from the New Times astutely observed about her track “Art,” "’This is a feeling I can't explain, like I'm driving all night going the wrong way’ is such a great metaphor, and the song's title comes from this skewering: ‘It's okay if you break my heart. I'll just turn you into art.’” Certainly, she uses her music as emotional catharsis for herself and her audience, but there is more than a hint of possibility that her true love is not the emotional experience of the moment but rather the transforming of it into music itself.  

Amalia’s style is a unique blend of her influences, exhibiting Taylor Swift’s penchant for lyric writing, Olivia Rodrigo’s pressure-cooker frustration, and Phoebe Bridgers’ emotive production. However, she doesn’t imitate these influences as much as she uses them to push herself beyond the realm of comparison. She grew up on the doorstep to California’s Big Sur and her decision to study songwriting at Belmont in Nashville flipped the script on her life’s trajectory by taking her to a very different place both musically and culturally, deepening her already complex songwriting and immersing her in a subculture far different from the one in which she grew up.  

When performing, her presence on stage radiates a natural beauty and understanding, tempered by a calm confidence that works like gravity on her audiences, pulling them into her sphere of influence and perspective. At 21, Amalia has already been songwriting for over 10 years, with more songs under her belt than musicians twice her age. She confidently demands the world pay attention to her music because of what she sings about and how she chooses to sing it. She will continue to develop her craft, expand her already mesmerizing persona and musical vision, and reach new heights of creativity as she guides us all with melody and truth to a better place of personal and cultural understanding.

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