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Amy MacDonald
Biography
Amy MacDonald is a singer/songwriter, born in Glasgow on the 25th of August, 1987. She studied social sciences with an emphasis on geography at university and, like many teenagers, her days were spent dreaming of pilgrimages to music festivals such as T in the Park, where she would listen to other people's music. But at just 12 years old, listening to the songwriting skills of Francis Healy, she was inspired to pick up a guitar that had been left lying around the house from her father's pop group days, and taught herself to play by following "how to play guitar" advice on the Internet rather than taking structured lessons. With a desire to write songs as good as Travis had recorded at their peak, she began a journey that led to gigging around the local area, after having been spotted as standing out at school and performing with a community music group, Impact Arts, who visited the school to work with kids interested in music. The gigs featured simply MacDonald with her acoustic guitar on-stage and a set of cover versions, including "Everybody Hurts" and a slow version of "Mad World." This led to appearances in Starbucks coffeehouse locations in Glasgow and Edinburgh and on to bigger and better gigs, eventually including a mini-tour of Scotland performing with Travis (whom she had been a fan of since childhood) and fellow Scot Paolo Nutini, followed by appearances at the Glastonbury, T in the Park, and V music festivals.
Selected Discography