Artist Biography
Wisconsin-based musician Kendra Amalie's mastery of 12-string acoustic guitar and brooding songwriting style gelled into a uniquely dark style as she moved from working with bands to releasing solo material. Her 2019 solo debut Intuition saw Amalie's technically deft take on rural guitar combined with her cosmic rock impulses.
Amalie was born to a musical household, her mother worked as a country singer while she was growing up. While stationed in Chicago, Amalie started her band Names Divine in 2009. Over the next decade the band worked hard, releasing several albums and touring internationally. In addition to the band, she contributed to various other outfits, including a leading role in the meditative duo Sight of Swans and guitar or keyboard contributions to Eleven Eleven and Dire Wolves. Now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Amalie was also focusing on her solo material, recording home demos and occasionally issuing noisy cassette releases. Her 2018 cassette Called (issued under the name Kendraplex) served as a bridge between work with Names Divine and her solo material, which was growing more abstract and experimental. Her first proper solo album, Intuition, was released in 2019 on the Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label. ~ Fred Thomas
Hometown
United States of America
Genre
Rock