Biography
Amy Steinberg, a San Diego-based singer and songwriter rooted in folk and pop traditions, channels themes of female empowerment and spiritual inquiry throughout her work. Born in Boston, she took up classical piano studies at the age of five. Following her family’s relocation to Florida, she began acting as a teenager, claimed multiple drama-competition victories, and later trained at both the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the Boston Conservatory. While still in college she assembled her first ensemble, Sunny Side Up, and crossed Europe with a touring production of the musical Hair. In 1997 she settled in Orlando, Florida, where she soon launched the Amy Steinberg Band. Emphasizing acoustic textures, that group issued three albums—Sky High and 360 Hibiscus—alongside the EP Sex with Amy. Eventually proceeding as a solo artist, she delivered Raw Material from the Ethereal in 2002, Must Be the Moon in 2005, and Fall Down to Fly in 2007. Love Divine arrived in 2011 with production by Justin Beckler. Intimate with the Infinite followed in 2013, Broken Open in 2015, and Shine Be Glorious—produced by Ross Cooper—in 2018. A multi-disciplinary creator, Steinberg also paints, writes, and presents one-woman theatrical shows in which she embodies an array of characters. Outside her own performances she serves as Music Director at the Universal Spirit Center in San Diego.
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