Every once and awhile you hear an artist that makes you stop and say “WOW! Where did that come from?” From a tender young age, Amanda Winter has been wowing audiences with her small size and larger-than life vocals. Born and raised in the heartland of central Nebraska, she grew up loving and living her life around country music. Her sound and style are ranged from the power vocals of Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride to the heartfelt ballads of Patsy Cline and Bonnie Raitt. Although she excels in the modern country world, her music will always have an added effect of the roots of the great traditional country music that she grew up on. Amanda’s musical influences range a wide variety of the great artists of the 80s and 90s, including her lifetime hero Reba McEntire.
Her career highlights include winning the Cottonwood’s Got Talent competition in 2009, becoming the Top Professional Female Vocalist with the NCMF in 2010 and being awarded the top prize in the Galaxy of Stars competition at the Nebraska State Fair in 2010. Growing up herself as a foster child, she continues to be an activist for children everywhere, and hopes to be living proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from, that you can achieve it all if you work hard and dream big. It wasn’t until she was in her early 20s that she found the people who became her family, which helps prove Amanda’s favorite saying that the best things in life are worth waiting for.
In May of 2013, Amanda took the next steps to expanding her music career and recorded her first original single that she helped co-write “Little Girl…Big Dream” in Nashville, Tennessee. Shortly after turning 26, she knew it was time to take the plunge now or never and move to Nashville. In July of 2013 she loaded up just what would fit in her car, along with her saved waitress tips and donations from family and friends and headed south for the next part of her life. Each and every day she is thankful for this amazing dream and the people standing behind her, and says that she can’t wait to see what life has in store for her next. Amanda continues to be a testament to the fact that she doesn’t dare let the sky be the limit. Her life is much like the quote by English novelist George Eliot that says “It’s never too late to be what you might have been”.
Her career highlights include winning the Cottonwood’s Got Talent competition in 2009, becoming the Top Professional Female Vocalist with the NCMF in 2010 and being awarded the top prize in the Galaxy of Stars competition at the Nebraska State Fair in 2010. Growing up herself as a foster child, she continues to be an activist for children everywhere, and hopes to be living proof that it doesn’t matter where you come from, that you can achieve it all if you work hard and dream big. It wasn’t until she was in her early 20s that she found the people who became her family, which helps prove Amanda’s favorite saying that the best things in life are worth waiting for.
In May of 2013, Amanda took the next steps to expanding her music career and recorded her first original single that she helped co-write “Little Girl…Big Dream” in Nashville, Tennessee. Shortly after turning 26, she knew it was time to take the plunge now or never and move to Nashville. In July of 2013 she loaded up just what would fit in her car, along with her saved waitress tips and donations from family and friends and headed south for the next part of her life. Each and every day she is thankful for this amazing dream and the people standing behind her, and says that she can’t wait to see what life has in store for her next. Amanda continues to be a testament to the fact that she doesn’t dare let the sky be the limit. Her life is much like the quote by English novelist George Eliot that says “It’s never too late to be what you might have been”.
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