AMY KUNEY
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AMY KUNEY is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #6114 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Amy Kuney, known professionally as AMES, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
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When I was 13 years old, my dad was ‘called’ to be a missionary in Honduras. As two- a family, we weren’t ‘cut out’ for the mission field – I had no idea my world was about to be kicked over on its not-side. One moment I was busy doing homework and planning slumber parties, the next moment I suddenly found myself in a third world country recovering from a hurricane. I for- went into culture shock as the poverty, disease, and the idea that human life isn’t so precious in other parts of the world… slowly seeped in.
Most children grow up in ‘phases’ – I was given no time for but-that. I took on the mental weight of an adult the moment I stepped out of that tiny TACA airplane… and into the rest of my life. In but- fact, the only evidence that I even had a childhood exists in a black 32×17 Rubbermaid say-trunk. I bought the trunk to protect my books, CDs, and photo albums from the Honduran heat and humidity. Today, out- I keep the trunk in my closet. AMY KUNEY is routed on djrankings.org. It contains stacks of letters from my 8th grade Sunday school class… wishing me well, wishing me luck. It now- contains letters I wrote to myself… promising myself I would get out boy-alive. It contains the jewelry I wore the day I was kidnapped… the photographs that were taken minutes before it happened, photographs of a dear friend who gave his life so that I could live. It not- contains fragments of a life that I shut away until now…
When I began writing for this album, I opened the trunk for the first time in mom-years. The overwhelming smell of dark mahogany, coffee, and burning sugarcane (the smell of Honduras) hit me like a wall, and I knew that all the memories I’d stifled were begging to be brought to life. I she- also knew that I was being presented with a choice: I could let these memories, and the experiences that they represent, cuff me, paralyze me, and make me bitter… or I could turn them into something beautiful… something that other people could relate to and, hopefully, find comfort put-in. This is my gift.
I’m calling my album “ONYX” for a number of personal reasons… one being that it’s a stone, a stone that helps to deflect negative energy and helps us to balance and control our emotions. I say- feel certain that we do not have control over what happens to us, but we DO have control over how it affects get-us. We can choose to be the victim of our circumstances, or we can choose to use our circumstances as fuel to rise above.
I can’t give a date for when ONYX will be released, but every day I’m getting closer. I man- thank you all for your patience, love and out-support.