"After this tour, I am going to have a home. I'm gonna figure that out. But yeah, this definitely lends itself to the chaos of the whole thing. I feel very nebulous right now. There is a certain amount of chaos in Day, who sports a '90s heartthrob bob and keeps a sunshiny demeanor throughout an hour-long Zoom chat while she changes locations three times."
"It's at once precisely curated, each note and lyric accounted for, and eagerly committed to the maximalist extremes of whatever genre's playground she's found herself in. Day hails from a small town about 30 miles south of Seattle that she notes is the Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World."
"When she wasn't listening to Christian radio with her parents, she devoured classic rock, folk and jazz - a 'musical time capsule,' she says, before she was allowed to listen to secular pop music with curse words. She was 4 when she first begged for piano lessons; just a few years later she started writing originals on a hand-me-down guitar."
Amelia Day, a 23-year-old singer and multi-instrumentalist, currently lives on the road while touring after a roommate breakup voided her lease and forced her belongings into storage. Despite the chaos of her nomadic lifestyle, her music demonstrates meticulous curation and maximalist genre exploration. Raised in a small Washington town near Seattle, Day grew up listening to Christian radio, classic rock, folk, and jazz before discovering secular pop music. She began piano lessons at age 4 and started writing original songs on a hand-me-down guitar years later. After attending Vanderbilt University as an English major in Nashville, she immersed herself in the local music community through house shows and open mic nights, eventually overcoming childhood stage fright to perform original songs and covers.
Read at The Washington Post
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