Amanda stott biography
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Amanda Stott (born on May 6, ) is a Canadian pop singer from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
Amanda grew up on her family farm but her father was a saxophonist and pianist. She started singing in her church choir when she was just three years old and first gained prominence as a country singer at the Dauphin CountryFest. In , she was signed to Warner Music Canada and her first self-titled CD was released in This album prompted single "Black is Black" which quickly became a hit on country radio and television. She gained fame in the United States when Country Music Television started to air some of her videos. She also won a Juno Award for Best New Solo Artist.
After a few years away from the spotlight, Amanda came back in not only as a beautiful ung woman now in her 20s, but with a new, more adult pop sound. Her single, Paper Rain, from Women and Songs, Vol. 8 reached #1 on the Canadian Top 40 chart. On March 8, , her sophomore CD, Chasing the Sky, was released. It included
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Make More Pie + Chefs Talk
Amanda Stott-Smith would have turned 46 today. Instead, she was found dead yesterday in her prison cell at Coffee Creek Correctional in Wilsonville, OR. The cause of death has not been announced and may never be. As my friend, a former DA, told me last night, the Oregon Department of Corrections “has developed a policy of refusing to say ANYTHING about ‘inmates’ deaths.”
Many people - some of whom knew Amanda, some of whom did not - contacted me yesterday upon learning of Amanda’s death. Some of them read about it in the Oregonian or heard through various newschannels. A few got word directly from Amanda’s parents, including one of Amanda’s surviving children, Gavin, now Gavin had neither seen nor spoken with Amanda since , the night she left him at the home of his grandparents and drove to pick up her two youngest children, Eldon, age four, and seven-year-old Trinity. Shortly after 1am, she drove the sleeping children to the Sellwood Bridge and