Amy’s amazing story has been close to our hearts since we first met her in 2004. We’ve respected Amy’s wishes to not disclose certain details about her life-threatening experience in 2003, until she felt she was ready to retell it. Thanks to Michael Laskow and Kenny Kerner and all our friends at TAXI for putting this interview together. You can view the full article here.
Enjoy! –MM
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“Hard Work and a Whole
Lot of Perseverance”
Passenger Profile: Amy Kuney
By Kenny Kerner Listen to ‘How The Wind Must Feel’ by Amy Kuney:
I can tell by reading many of your profiles that you’re taking our advice and getting up and taking charge of your own careers. I can tell by your e-mails to me and by the success stories you tell TAXI.
But this profile is special. Amy Kuney has lived a lifetime in her 21 years. This is about a TAXI member whose life was changed on March 28, 2003 while in Guatemala. She and her friends were brutally attacked by gunmen and one of her friends was murdered before her eyes. Amy Kuney was 17 years old at the time. Read the rest of this entry »
The sun was starting to set as the first day of daylight savings time was heading into evening. Nick and Pep (Nick’s very cool roommate) arrived a little early to help me re-set some of my hard-to-reach clocks in the house, change a very hard-to-replace light bulb and get ready for Nick’s very first session rehearsal with Voyce McGinley, III and Paul Marshall. Nick has been hard at work for several weeks, refining his songs before we go into the studio. The time had finally come to test them out with live musicians!!! Yea!!!
I headed out for a few minutes with Pep to Trader Joe’s to pick up a treat for when the rehearsal was all over and Pep, being the electrical genius he is, offered to replace the light dimmer in my family room that had recently stopped dimming! So he dropped me at T.J’s and drove around to the other side of the mall to Home Depot to find the perfect replacement dimmer.
When Pep and I returned from our shopping excursion, Voyce had already arrived with his wife Nancy and was all set up and ready to go. It wasn’t long after that, Paul Marshall arrived and, within minutes, music was in the air! And, before the guys were done working out the first tune, Pep had replaced my dimmer! Talk about multi-tasking!!!
Our biggest concern for the first rehearsal was to make sure the charts were right and to find the best tempos and grooves for each of the six songs we will be recording. And, of course, this was the first time for this configuration of musicians and so this was their bonding time! Needless to say, it went great!
About half-way through the evening, Papa John’s delivered and everyone’s energy was replenished for the last three songs!
I couldn’t be happier with the way the night went. I think everyone felt the same way. We ended it all with some great minature cheese cakes from T.J.’s and the cars and truck were loaded and the first night of daylight savings time had come to an end!
Nick plays to a sell-out crowd at his first corporate event. Introducing a new song called “Rocket Science shouldn’t be hard.” For more, visit NicksJourney.com
Amy just did a radio interview (for podcast) with Rey Anthony at RadioGuy.com It’s a great 26 minutes. Click the play button below to listen to it! (or download the MP3)
Featuring the songs:
So Help Me God
In The Dark (clip)
Sold Out (clip)
How The Wind Must Feel (clip)
Sore Loser (clip)
Sunday (clip)
Breaking Bad Habits (clip)
Amy Kuney’s EP is available on CD or via download.
This article just came out in the TAXI Navigator, which is included in the new A&R Registry update, distributed to The Music Business Registry’s subscribers throughout the music industry. Amy was selected from over 10,000 TAXI members for this honor. We really appreciate it!
Thanks to Michael Laskow, Chris Baptiste and the TAXI staff for their belief and support for Amy and her music! And, thanks to Bud Scoppa for writing this fantastic piece! It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy all over when someone else appreciates Amy as a songwriter and artist the way she deserves to be appreciated!
Listen to ‘How The Wind Must Feel’ by Amy Kuney:
