Living & Thriving Guest: Amy Rose, Country Singer, Songwriter

Please welcome Ms Amy Rose to the Living & Thriving with Rustie Series. 

Amy Rose grew up in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, where she began her singing career at the age of 5.  Her first public performance was in a singing contest at the Barrie Promenade Days, a local fair.  A series of singing competitions followed, including her most memorable early moment: “It was at the Kinmount Fair,” Amy recalls.  “I had been the winner for the previous three years, when I was lucky enough to meet one of my local heroes, Jason McCoy (2001 CCMA Best Male Artist.)”  It was also during this period that Amy was trained in, and mastered the art of yodeling, earning her the respect of Ontario’s country music community.

Amy’s first album, One Special Girl, was released independently, when she was 13.  On the strength of this album, she landed a spot on Dorian Baxter’s Gospelenium Tour, opening for Joni and Cathy Twitty, the daughters of her then-idol, Conway Twitty.  Other openers for The Wilkinsons, Emerson Drive and High Valley followed. Her 2nd album, The Last of the True Believers, was released in 2001, receiving airplay, and earning her the reputation as one of Canada’s best young female artists.  A brief hiatus from recording gave Amy the opportunity to raise a family with her husband; passing along the strong values that have always been an important part of her life.