Amanda McBroom

Based in Los Angeles, the songwriter and cabaret singer reached her widest audience through the composition "The Rose," which became a 1979 success for Bette Midler. McBroom has performed onstage in "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well" and "See Saw" while sustaining a schedule of regular tours. Her first album, Growing Up in Hollywood with Lincoln Mayorga, sold briskly on the prestigious Sheffield Labs label, a distinction repeated by the followup West of Oz.