Amanda vernon biography
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Meet Phoenix, AZ-based Musician Amanda Vernon
AMANDA VERNON is a Phoenix, AZ-based recording principal (piano, categorical, songwriting).
Website: www.amandavernon.com
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Amanda Vernon
When God Wrecks Your Romance
- Orthodox Faith, Unorthodox Story
- By: Amanda Vernon, Matt Fase CSC
- Narrated by: Amanda Vernon, Matt Fase CSC
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
When God Wrecks Your Romance is a co-authored memoir written by a newly ordained priest and a young married mother of four children. It’s the story of two kids who fell for each other as teens, and, spoiler alert, ultimately did not end up together....
- 5 out of 5 stars
Unbelievable
- By Lindsay Burke on 02-17-19
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Soulful pop singer Amanda Vernon: The Local Spins Artist Spotlight
The dynamic Grand Rapids singer won the pop/electronic category in this year’s ArtPrize song contest hosted by St. Cecilia Music Center while promoting her fifth album and crisscrossing the country on tour. (Video, podcast)
Sharing Her Music With As Many People As Possible: Amanda Vernon (Photo/Local Spins)
With an irresistible personality and shining demeanor, Amanda Vernon seems to infect everyone she meets with an upbeat glow.
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Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the Grand Rapids pop-soul singer and pianist writes captivating music and belts out her tunes with real power and undeniable charm, qualities that permeate her fifth and latest studio album, “Interior Gaze,” and keep her on tour across the country.
Chalk up her recent win in the ArtPrize/St. Cecilia song competition to those attributes, too, along with heartfelt lyrics that “capture the essence” of reading a nursery rhyme to toddlers at bedtime in a loving way that all parents have experienced.
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“I wrote it for my daughter who is a year-and-a-half now,” says Vernon, a full-time musician who tours with her manager-hu