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Jann Arden - 100% match to Amanda Marshall

Jann Arden Richards, 27 March 1962, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This Canadian singer-songwriter worked as a salmon-gutter, a golf ball cleaner and a singing waitress before finding success as a musician. Arden recorded a solo single (‘Never Love A Sailor’) under her real name when she was only 17 and started working with rock ‘n’ roll groups in bars and clu Read more

Tara Maclean - 65% match to Amanda Marshall

25 October 1973, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Singer-songwriter MacLean was raised in locations as diverse as the Caribbean, Toronto and British Columbia. From a musical family, she appeared on television at the age of 11 singing with her stepfather, guitarist Marty Reno. She later worked in the UK, before returning to Canada where she was discovered singing Read more

Chantal Kreviazuk - 60% match to Amanda Marshall

18 May 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The respected US magazine Billboard has dubbed Kreviazuk the ‘grown up version’ of Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch. The Canadian singer-songwriter was a child prodigy who could play the piano almost as soon as she touched it. She studied classical piano at the University of Winnipeg but only began writing Read more

Sophie B. Hawkins - 54% match to Amanda Marshall

Sophie Ballantine Hawkins, 1 November 1966, Manhattan, New York, USA. Born of liberal, wealthy East Manhattan parents (her father a lawyer, her mother British writer Joan Winthrop), Hawkins’ family background also boasted an aunt, Linda, who had been masseuse to Paul Simon. By the time she moved with Aunt Linda to the arty environs of West Greenwich, she had already beg Read more

Abra Moore - 34% match to Amanda Marshall

8 June 1969, San Diego, California, USA. Folk-pop artist Moore has established herself as a striking new voice in the alternative singer-songwriter field, alongside acclaimed artists such as Liz Phair and Ani DiFranco. Raised in Hawaii by a musical family, Moore lost her jazz-loving mother at the age of four, a loss she would later articulate to striking effect on the title Read more

Meredith Brooks - 33% match to Amanda Marshall

Oregon City, Oregon, USA. Brooks launched her solo career in the mid-90s after a gap of over eight years from her previous recording efforts. In 1989, she was signed to A&M Records as a member of the Graces, a band she co-founded with Gina Clambotti, later a member of Bruce Springsteen’s touring group, and Charlotte Caffey, formerly of the Go-Go’s. However, she Read more

Holly McNarland - 31% match to Amanda Marshall

October 1974, Manitoba, Canada. Guitarist and singer-songwriter McNarland has received numerous comparisons to Alanis Morissette since she burst on to the scene during the late 90s, owing to the facts that both come from Canada and specialize in emotional and confessional songs. Raised in Winnipeg, McNarland started singing at the tender age of three, and took up the guitar Read more

Melissa Etheridge - 31% match to Amanda Marshall

29 May 1961, Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. Etheridge was still only a teenager when she began playing piano and guitar in various covers bands around Kansas. After this grounding she had a more formal training at the Berklee College Of Music before playing the club circuit around Boston, Massachusetts. However, it was after she relocated to Los Angeles and was spotted performing Read more

Nina Gordon - 28% match to Amanda Marshall

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon, 14 November 1967, USA. Gordon made her initial mark on the music scene in the mid-90s as guitarist and joint singer-songwriter with post-grunge favourites Veruca Salt, and was responsible for writing the band’s two biggest US hits, ‘Seether’ and ‘Volcano Girls’. She left Veruca Salt in 1998 shortly after the release of the Read more

Paula Cole - 28% match to Amanda Marshall

5 April 1968, Rockport, Massachusetts, USA. Singer-songwriter Cole launched her career with the spirited, persuasive Harbinger set for Imago Records in July 1994. Among several notable tracks was the high-impact single, ‘I Am So Ordinary’, which forcefully dealt with Cole’s low self-esteem problems. However, its potential impact was scuppered when Imago lost i Read more

Shawn Colvin - 25% match to Amanda Marshall

Shanna Colvin, 10 January 1956, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. A singer-songwriter in the tradition of her teen idol Joni Mitchell, Colvin was of considerable age before she recorded her first songs. Backed by fellow guitarist and songwriting partner John Leventhal (later a collaborator with Marc Cohn), her debut pulled together arresting material with an understated approac Read more

Alannah Myles - 23% match to Amanda Marshall

25 December 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Toronto-based vocalist Myles spent much of her early career unsuccessfully shopping for a recording contract in her native Canada, but when she and writing partner Christopher Ward changed tack, targeting an American recording contract with a David Tyson-produced demo and a video for ‘Just One Kiss’, they met with almost Read more

Catie Curtis - 22% match to Amanda Marshall

Saco, Maine, USA. Folk singer-songwriter Curtis first started out as a drummer, before switching to guitar in time to perform at coffee houses during a college stint at Brown University. She began her recording career in 1989 with Dandelion, on the independent Mongoose label, following it up two years later with From Years To Hours. Both sets spotlighted the musical ingredie Read more

Emm Gryner - 21% match to Amanda Marshall

Heather Nova - 17% match to Amanda Marshall

Heather Frith, 6 July 1968, Bermuda. This singer-songwriter’s early childhood was spent on her family’s yacht, sailing around the Caribbean (her brother is the reggae singer, Mishka). Frith’s early interest in music intensified when, aged 19, she moved to Providence to study painting and film at the Rhode Island School of Design. She did not join in with the l Read more