About Amity
Amity, beyond all his own expectations, has WON the Royal Albert Hall's highly prestigious Future Makers competition! The competition is part of the Royal Albert Hall's aim to discover and support the best emerging talent. They played their song 'Almost Home' in front of a crowd of almost 2500 people, an experience he described as both exhilarating and nerve-wrecking. The judges praised Amity for “… captivating the whole [Royal Albert] Hall with his great vocals and beautiful piano playing from start to finish."
And Amity's prize for winning the competition - a full 12 months of support from The Royal Albert Hall themselves! How amazing is that...
I’m filled with gratitude and amazement to have the huge honour of being awarded Best Singer at the RBE Music Excellence Awards. I’m really humbled as all the vocal nominees were outstanding and it was a total shock to carry home this trophy. I’m so grateful to RBE who not only nominated me but were also the first promoters to put me on their stages when I was just 15 years old. That’s something I’ll never forget as being such a young performer creates real barriers to fully participating in the music scene. I’m also grateful to all of you who voted for me as I’m sure winning the public vote helped get me closer to taking home the prize. Photo credits @rkartphotography
Amity has been selected for the FINALS of the highly prestigious Royal Albert Hall's Future Makers competition and will be competing with seven others to try and win. In the semi-finals, Amity auditioned with their song 'Almost Home' and got to play in one of the Royal Albert Hall's rehersal rooms on an amazing bright red Yamaha grand piano. The finals will take place in the main auditorium in front of thousands. Come and join us in supporting Amity - the finals are on the 17th October 2023 at 12:30pm. You can buy tickets here.
Amity has been selected for Best Singer 2023 as part of RBE's annual awards - a massive honour. The award is based on both a public and juding panel vote. You can vote for Amity by going to the RBE website here and selecting Amity's name under the Best Singer category and it you fancy coming on the night to see if Amity wins, you can buy a ticket for the Award Ceremony here.
Amity has been nominated in the top 30 of the Song Academy Young Songwriters 2023. This is a national young songwriter competition run each year by Song Academy, sponsored by YouTube music and others and they'd received 1000s of entries, so for Amity to be recognised is a great achievement.
Hot on the heels of making it into the finals of Undiscovered Talent UK last week, Amity’s moving song “Ragdoll” has now made it into the semi finals of the highly prestigious UK Songwriting Contest.
The competition was incredibly high, with thousands of entrants from over 80 countries. Amity also entered “Burnt” and “Comet Trails”, which both earned a highly coveted 5 star award and were 'highly commended' and 'commended' respectively. It is a huge achievement to have all three entries receive five star awards from this illustrious body, never mind getting through to the semi finals.
The UK Songwriting Contest is one of the world's longest running songwriting events and it is widely regarded as the most prestigious international songwriting competition. The contest was formed with support from the BRIT Trust to promote the craft of songwriting and to encourage and discover new songwriters and it is well known in the music industry as a launching pad for new talent. This competition has an unrivalled and highly respected reputation in the international music industry.
It launched in London in 2002 in association with important music industry bodies and companies including The BRIT Trust, The BRIT School, The BRIT Studio, Music Aid International, the Guild of International Songwriters and Composers and Roland UK among others.
Amity is on fire with all the competitions right now, having also successfully made it through to the FINALS of Undiscovered Talent UK online. Amity was one of JUST FOUR under 18s to make it through to the public vote, an incredible achievement. They were head and shoulders ahead of the competition on public vote for the whole twenty four hour period that it was open, and Amity felt totally blessed to have such a positive response, leading to a big jump up in the number of social media followers and fans alongside the incredible vote result.
Amity played at another open mic competition, this time in Madden's Bar in East Finchley amidst a super talented line up including the exceptional Lamby. This was more of a Britain's Got Talent lineup rather than a singers open mic, and was also perhaps the quirkiest line up Amity's ever come across, featuring an Elvis impersonator and a belly dancer to name a few. Amity sang their heart out as always and found out a few days later that they had received enough votes to win the competition and get through into another season final. The final will be Friday 18th November in East Finchley. Amity would love to see some friendly faces down there!
Amity won the sing off against a very tough line-up of talented singers and singer-songwriters, with an audience of 500 people voting alongside the judging panel. Amity is the youngest person ever to have won this prestigous competition.
"Rather than perform a cover like I did in last year's sing off competition, being a singer-songwriter, I decided to sing one of my own original songs, Ragdoll. I wrote this song last year but this is the first time that I've sung it with a live band, and with an audience of 500. I got the most ridiculous reception, a stand ovation from the whole of the sing off audience and the judging panel too! And I made a judge cry too as she was so caught up in the emotion of the song. Crazy!!""
Amity came down to the Catcher In The Rye to what they thought was an average open mic session. However, it quickly emerged that Amity was now in yet another competition, this time competing against ADULTS.
With audience votes determining the outcome, a huge level of adult talent in the room, and some people having brought quite a few friends to support them, we immediately recognised that this was unlikely to be something Amity could expect to get anywhere with. How wrong were we? Amity stepped up and performed in their own authentic and heartfelt style and got some unbelievable reactions from the audience and other performers, including being told by the amazing Gio Dara – who represented Ukraine in the Eurovision song contest in 2020, and whose music is incredible and should be checked out here – that he had goosebumps during the performance and despite spending years on the music circuit in London and New York, had not been moved by a performance like that in years. Three performers shouted out on the mic, telling the audience that Amity was a tough act to follow and inviting the crowd to give it up for Amity again. We left early because of Amity’s age curfew floating on a cloud of positivity and joy and with a small army of new friends and contacts. Imagine our shock though the next day when we received an email to tell us that Amity had WON and would now be going on to compete in the season finale.