With the release of her debut album, Bird’s Eye View, and a busy tour schedule, it’s fortunate to find a minute to speak with up-and-coming music artist Amy Kuney. Kuney writes and performs her own music on the album, and has also performed covers of other artists’ music.

Amy Kuney's Story and Inspiration for Her Music

One of five siblings, Amy Kuney grew up in a large family and was homeschooled. At the age of thirteen, Kuney's family moved to Honduras. As a teenager, she really didn't want to be there, uprooted from her home in Tulsa, OK. "Bored and pissed off about living in Honduras," she wasn't seriously into music at the time, and "didn't make the most of the experience."

A Traumatic Experience as the Catalyst for Writing Music

In 2003, at the age of seventeen, Kuney and some of her friends were kidnapped by rebels while traveling in Guatemala. Sadly, while she and others were released, one of her friends was killed while trying to protect the rest of the group. The life-changing experience was something she saw as "a second chance."

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