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Artist
Amanda Mora
11+ albums
kgrlfemale vocalistsfemale vocalistsinger-songwriteramerica
about
Twenty-five year old songwriter, Amanda Mora, was raised in the heart of Austin’s music culture by two professional musicians. By the time Amanda was born, her mother, Jill Jones, was forming a career in western swing music with a niche in yodeling that would lead her to the top of WMA music charts and earn her the title of National Yodeling Champion. Her father, a lifelong songsmith, passed down a musical heritage that goes back to one of Austin’s first orchestras, The Pharr Family Orchestra and Blondie Burnet Pharr, UT band leader and co-author of the UT fight song. During the years that Amanda’s father was not playing professionally, his music defined him as a man and a father and filled the house and mind of Amanda with music during her formative years. Yet, with all the music in the air, Amanda did not pick up an instrument until she was eighteen. As she describes it, “I was just so happy to listen to the music, it sounds strange, but it really never occurred to me to pick up an instrument. It happened over night, I went from being completely satisfied with listening, to urgently needing to find my own musical expression. Once I opened the door, a flood came out. With every new chord I learned (or made up), I would write a new song.” In the fall of 2007, Amanda moved into her father’s home studio and taught herself to edit and engineer in Pro Tools. The recording of The Ribbon was originally intended to be a brief interlude between college and career in order to unwind a
