Once upon a time – as recently as late 2007 – A.M.A.N.D.A. lived worlds away in remote Crosby Garrett in England’s Lake District, amidst a pastoral agricultural region appropriately named “Eden.” The surrounding county of Cumbria’s Directory calls it a, “small cluster of homes and farms grouped around a beck in a quiet vale.” A.M.A.N.D.A. herself affectionately describes her hometown as a place with, “200 people, 50 houses and a lot of sheep.”
A.M.A.N.D.A.’s parents – dad’s an architect, mom’s a teacher – are both musical, and she started singing at age four. She was a natural. “The first thing I ever sang,” she recalls, “was ‘The End Of The World.’” In fact, it was the beginning of a whole new one for A.M.A.N.D.A. – she realized that singing was, “all I wanted to do,” and soon decided she’d fancy performing at Wembley Stadium one day.
