Amanda Shaw

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Name = Amanda Shaw

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Img_capt = Amanda Shaw performs at the French Quarter festival in New Orleans in April 2007.
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Amanda Amaya Shaw
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Born = August 2, 1990 Covington, Louisiana, U.S.
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Origin = Covington, Louisiana, U.S.
Instrument = Fiddle
Genre = Pop, Cajun, rock
Occupation = Singer-songwriter, actress
Years_active = 2002–present
Label = Rounder Records
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URL = [http://www.amandashaw.com amandashaw.com]

Amanda Amaya Shaw (born August 2, 1990) [ [http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/1217568106216280.xml&coll=1 Keith Spera, "Hurricane party", New Orleans Times-Picayune, Aug. 1, 2008.] ] is a Cajun fiddler, singer, and actress from Covington, Louisiana.

Shaw studied classical violin starting at age 4, but began playing and performing Cajun music at 8. She and her band, the Cute Guys, appear regularly throughout the New Orleans area, including annual shows at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She has recorded two independently-released albums, "Little Black Dog" (2001) and "I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess" (2004) -- the latter including not only traditional Cajun melodies but eclectic choices such as The Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go and The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (changed to "Girlfriend"). In 2006, Shaw signed with Rounder Records.

Shaw has appeared in two Disney Channel original movies filmed in New Orleans: Stuck in the Suburbs (2004) and Now You See It... (2005). Her best-known screen role, however, is as one of the principal narrators in Hurricane on the Bayou (2006), a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the erosion of Louisiana's wetlands. Her music is featured in "Hurricane" along with that of co-narrator Tab Benoit and New Orleans native Allen Toussaint.

Shaw would have graduated from Mount Carmel Academy in New Orleans in 2008 but she opted instead to continue traveling around the country and performing, even though she calls this decision a difficult one. She earned her G.E.D. in 2008, and plans to enroll at Tulane University in 2009. [ [http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/1217568106216280.xml&coll=1 Keith Spera, "Hurricane party", New Orleans Times-Picayune, Aug. 1, 2008.] ]

In 2008, Shaw released her third album, "Pretty Runs Out" on Rounder Records. [Citation |last= |first= |title=Damien Rice, Amanda Shaw have new CDs |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22651683/ |publisher="MSNBC" |date=2008-01-14 |accessdate=2008-01-26]

Discography

*"Little Black Dog" (2001)
*"I'm Not a Bubble Gum Pop Princess" (2004)
*"Pretty Runs Out" (2008)

References

* Judy Bergeron, "Magic fills movie shot in N.O.; Covington teen says Disney gig's "really cool", Baton Rouge Advocate, Jan. 14, 2005

Notes

External links

* [http://www.amandashaw.com Official site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1653610/ Amanda Shaw at] The Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2006-10-24/feat.php Profile of Amanda Shaw] , Gambit Weekly, Oct. 24, 2006
* [http://www.lanext.com/articles.php?article_id=52 Lanext.com profile]