AMES remembers those she has lost in new track / songwriter for Icona Pop, Michelle Branch etc

The inspiring AMES returns with her latest track “Old Hero” – a moving track inspired by true events and written about people in her life she has lost.

LGBTQIA artist, AMES has been in the music industry behind the scenes, writing with prominent pop artists like Kelly Clarkson, Rita Ora, Icona Pop and more. She marked the beginning of her solo career with the 2018 release “Hold On,” an uplifting track written as a letter to her former self who struggled with her sexuality, and “Picture In My Mind,” a song that mulls over dating in the age of social media.

Today, she arrives with her third single, “Old Hero,” taken from her new EP, “My Name Is AMES” out on April 5. She explained the story behind the track; “I was inspired to write “Old Hero” by true events. It’s a pretty literal song. True, and actual Heroes in my life. One, Todd Fields died actually saving my life and the lives of eight others. It’s a long story that someday I’ll be more comfortable talking about but it was a horrific and tragic hostage situation in Guatemala. The way Todd handled it… with such grace and instinct saved our lives. It was as if he was acting on a plan, premeditated. He knew exactly what to do, at exactly the right time…like being a hero was a map ingrained in his mind. The second hero is my friend Jaron D. Holliday (pictured in the artwork). He was an incredibly talented pianist who died in Iraq serving our country. He was only 21. I remember crying, thinking about his delicate piano fingers, believing they weren’t meant to drive a tank or pull a trigger but it’s selfish of me to think that way. I guess just wish I could hear him play again. The short piano melody that’s played right after the first chorus- before the second verse is an Ode to him.”

Growing up home schooled in an extremely conservative Christian family, AMES was uprooted and moved to Honduras as a missionary at age 13. It was there, without friends and in a strange country, that she had to grapple with being gay and spent all of her time writing and listening to the only secular album she could get her hands on, Fiona Apple’s Tidal. She moved to the states for a Christian college, dropped out, moved to LA, and vowed to spend the rest of her life making art and helping LGBTQ youth.

With a killer EP on the way and with FADER calling her newest batch of songs “majestic bops that pull from the realities of her queer life”, AMES is set for a huge 2019.