amyobenski

With a stark and honest intensity, Amy Obenski’s rich, crystalline voice cuts through the noise of every day life. She’s a California native. Raised in San Diego and now based in San Francisco, the sound of the far west is unmistakably infused into her words and sound. She’s toured the U.S. and France and got her song “Carousel” onto the TV Show, Grey’s Anatomy.

You can catch her perform in a variety of formats. Her newest project uses a looper where she plays solo but doubles up on her own music to create multiple layers of instruments, vocals and beats. This exploration is captured in her sixth album, An Emptiness to Fill, to be released in April of 2016.

In 2014 Amy recorded her fifth album, entitled Restless. It was a collaboration between her and a trio of French musicians named The Carbone Band. Between 2011 and 2013 Amy travelled to France three times to play and tour with them which eventually led to the recording of Restless and a month long Artist in Residence at La Maison des Arts in Saint Herblain. The music was a collision of Amy’s free “California girl” sound and the French’s deep passion and intensity.

Amy’s musical history stretches back to age five, when she began singing in her school choir. She took up piano at age six and has been studying music ever since. She finally picked up the guitar when she began songwriting at twenty-two.

In Santa Cruz, California, she supported local organizations through a series of benefit concerts called Take Back Your Forest. Collectively they raised six thousand dollars for the Sempervirens Fund, an organization that purchases and protects redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She continues to support these types of organizations as much as possible. In 2012, her Carbon Conscious Tour raised awareness about the burning of rainforest in South America and the affects on climate change.

amyobenski’s tracks

• Fly by amyobenski
• Rainbow by amyobenski
• Higher Ground- LIVE! (Stevie Wonder cover)featuring Rafael Sarria by amyobenski
• In Each Other's Arms, Live! with Rafael Sarria by amyobenski
• An Emptiness To Fill by amyobenski
• The Other Side Of The World by amyobenski
• Maybe That Sitar by amyobenski
• Restless by amyobenski
• Clearly Today (feat. The Carbone Band) by amyobenski