When local singer-songwriter, Amy McAllister, heard her soul’s call to spread hope through song, she answered without hesitation.
“My brother Brad’s passing broke my heart and turned my world upside down,” she says, “but it was also the gift that made me remember my childhood dream of making music and was the inspiration behind the songs I wrote to bring healing to myself and others.”
And through this healing influence, Amy built an award-winning music career. Now, the former hairstylist and salon owner performs at venues around the world, including the Grand Ole Opry where she sang, “This Little Light of Mine,” in tribute to bluegrass artist, Dr. Ralph Stanley—which Amy says is one of the most spiritual experiences of her career, a night in which she felt the presence of “many angels in the wings.”
At the Celebrity Theater Stage in Dollywood, she performed her hit song, “My Angel,” in honor of her late brother, and went on to win the first-ever Josie Music Award for Inspirational Song of the Year.
With numerous accolades to her name, including nominations for this year’s World
Entertainment Awards, Amy’s career is thriving and her influence expanding. But it’s her dedication to humanitarian causes that drives her.
“I will always follow my heart and forever use my voice to champion change for every cause to which I am called,” Amy says.
Her latest project—an album titled “I’m That Girl,” along with her musical collaboration, movement, and song, “Spread Hope, Send Love Around the World”—began as the theme song for a 2018 suicide awareness and prevention event at Red Cliffs Mall that has evolved into a modern-day version of Michael Jackson’s “We Are the World.”
“My platforms bring healing to people all over the world who are hurting…and who are having thoughts of ending their life and are in need of the encouragement to find their reason to stay,” she says.
Amy says she is in the final stages of launching her nonprofit, Building Reasons And Dreams, in Brad’s honor, and is working on a collaboration with various artists and musicians around the globe to “showcase unity through the power of music,” slated for release this summer.
She also recently launched I AM Jewelry, a business with the purpose of “giving back 100% of the proceeds to many philanthropic causes around the world.”
Together with her husband, they recently traveled to Egypt as well, where they discovered their most important humanitarian work to date.
“The world is in so much need of love and healing,” she says, “the love and healing we have to give.”
Learn more about Amy at info@amymcallistermusic.com or amymcallistermusic.com
With numerous accolades to her name, including nominations for this year’s World Entertainment Awards, Amy’s career is thriving and her influence expanding. But it’s her dedication to humanitarian causes that drives her.
