We had a great conversation with Amanda Cooksey on The Chris & Sandy Show. We talked about many things from family, music, sacrifices, passion, she told some stories to a whole lot more! Click the play button to listen to the podcast!
Born and raised in Orlando, Florida, Amanda Cooksey has always had a love for music. She has been writing songs since the age of twelve and has performed at various venues and festivals along the East Coast opening for Major Acts such as Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith, and Michael Ray. Encouraged by her vocal/piano instructor Ron Feldman to pursue her dreams, Amanda decided to move to Nashville in 2014. With clever yet honest lyrics and unique melodies, Amanda’s song “Girl in the Mirror” won second place in the Write With A Hitmaker contest at the Durango Songwriter’s Expo and fourth place in Music City Songstar’s contest in fall of 2018.
A year later, she dropped her honest and heartbreaking single “All The Right Things”. The song received considerable attention from Spotify landing on the playlists Pop-Co, Wild Country, Young Nashville, and New Music Nashville. As she continued to gain traction with her music, Glamour Magazine reached out to Amanda after catching one of her Louis Tomlinson covers on YouTube. The magazine was so impressed by her performance that they featured her on their website along with other artists’ covers. Louis Tomlinson (previously of One Direction) even commented on how much he enjoyed Amanda’s rendition of the song. At the end of 2019, Amanda released her sassy, fun single “Yo Mama” proving to hone in on her sound even further. The single received love from Spotify and landed on the playlists Pop-Co and New Music Nashville. Radio Disney Country jumped on board to support the single and awarded Amanda with the Song of the Week slot on “Let The Girl’s Play”. Currently, Amanda has just debuted the first single, “What’s His Name” from her new project and has a string of releases planned to round out 2020 and the start of 2021!
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Thanks for interviewing Amanda she is so amazing special and talented to us I see a bright future for and hope to see her preform and meet her one day