Meet Amanda Abizaid - Humanitarian that changing the lives of children & calling for world peace through music

Amanda is a chameleon and a master of many trades. For music fans who love an international flair with positive, conscious music that inspires, we've found the artist for you. Often her vocals have been described as a cross between Sara Bareilles and Sarah McLaughlin, musically her songs are a fusion mix of Pop, Neo-soul meets World. Singer/songwriter, Amanda Abizaid’s recent album “Walking In Twos” features the legendary Stephen Stills an has won several awards from prestigious competitions such as USA Songwriting Competition, Global Music Awards, Los Angeles Film Awards, Global Film Festival Awards, Clouzine International music awards and others. The New York Times thanked her for her vocals on the Emmy winning theme song “A Place In Time” for Paramount’s The 4400. Amanda has had songs on LIFETIME, PARAMOUNT, THE WB, and VH1. CBS, NBC and FOX, has performed live for audiences of up to 2500 people, and was interviewed by Forbes.com and Kababayan Today with G Tongi LA 18 TV. Amanda is a tall, brunette, green-eyed singer/songwriter/flautist/pianist originally from Lebanon with a powerful, sultry voice, captivating stage presence, meaningful lyrics, and exotic melodies impossible not to take you on a journey; fans around the world have gravitated to Amanda’s instinctive musical talent, her permanent smile and infectious laughter.

Something that makes Amanda so unique is that she is also a motivational speaker who teaches songwriting and world peace to children around the world where she combines her on-stage charisma with her inspiring personal stories, original songs, and keyboards. Amanda has performed and spoken around the world to hundreds of children through different non-profit organizations. Whether it’s writing songs for sync, custom songs for holidays and events, music healing and songwriting workshops for children around the world, Amanda inspires positivity when expressing your feelings and emotions and helps her fans and students transform these thoughts into a song of their own. She has collaborated with the legendary Stephen Stills and has shared the stage with other #1 best selling artists such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Lou Rawls Jr., David Ruffin Jr., Todd Sucherman (Styx), Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard), Stephen Mark Weitz and Howard Anderson (Strawberry Alarm Clock) and many others. As a flautist she has performed with The American Victory Orchestra for several Daniel Pearl concerts and was a soprano singer with the Metropolitan Master Chorale in Los Angeles, California. Amanda has moved audiences for the past 20 years. During her childhood, she lived in Beirut where experiencing war first hand has taken this experience and transformed it into a rare opportunity to inspire her audience through her sense of humor, peaceful and loving way of speaking. She gives children a head start from her speeches and classes that send them off and running ahead encouraged building their lives, using their sorrow and turning it into passion for life.

Despite growing up during a time of war, Amanda’s career as a singer/songwriter didn't materialize until she intuitively drove out and moved to Los Angeles...just a few days after she was offered a spot modeling for Chanel. Shortly after, a close friend who had heard Amanda sing at The Gig in Hollywood, insisted that she explore the world of session singing as their now production company Bosshouse Music’s only singer. Not realizing the success ahead, Amanda began singing several songs for TV and Film with actors such as Aly Sheedy and Charisma Carpenter, lip-syncing to her voice on VH1’s Strange Frequency starring Roger Daltrey and singing a duet with Sebastian Bach, front man of Skid Row. Amanda’s dream was to be a singer not a singer songwriter so this was indeed a dream gig for her. As she began to work with these artists, her own songwriting began to develop. Her best songwriting advice came from her mentor and now friend Stephen Stills – write the story, play 3 guitar hooks and the rest will follow. Now as a front man in her first band Blue, she began to co-write her first song “Timeless” which became the featured song of her first indie thriller sort film where she starred, “Facing The Lion”, directed by Joseph Plonsky with executive producer Scott Spiegel.

Amanda has received radio play countries around the world including the U.S. and has been featured on some of Southern California's most popular radio stations such as KCRW 89.9FM. Aside from her international success, Amanda can be found writing songs for sync. She recently relocated to Sarasota, Florida to be closer to family and has a new album set to be released January 14th, 2022. When she's not traveling and writing songs for sync , you can catch Amanda live online on Youtube with her In The Living Room Series and upcoming shows locally in Sarasota, Florida and Los Angeles performing at local venues such as Genghis Cohen, Molly Malone’s, Feinstein’s, large college campuses including UCLA where she has sang the star spangled banner on several occasions at Pauley Pavilion, Jackie Robinson and other highly regarded venues such as the The Mint, The Roxy and The Rainbow Room. She has also performed live on Los Angeles’s most-watched morning Pilipino news show, Kababayan Today Channel 18 TV.

With the international release of her album "Walking In Twos", about how stepping in someone else’s shoes can inspire world peace, a vision for bringing the east and west together in song through music, and a talent that is truly living her purpose, you can't help but get excited when you hear Amanda’s voice. Now with the re-mix of "Walking In Twos" by Amanda and Friends winning a Silver Medal from Global Music Awards, a nomination from the Josie Music Awards and a Grammy submission, Amanda continues to spread the message of positive change with singers and musicians from around the world to inspire us to come together through the mutual love of music during these trying times of Covid-19. "The most important thing in my life is to live my passion of singing and songwriting with the hope to inspire love uniting all people around the world”. Amanda Abizaid

Catch Amanda’s Full Interview at steveryan.com/podcast

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