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Amythyst Kiah is a vocalist and musician based out of Johnson City, TN, which is located in the northeastern part of the state that borders Southwest Virginia and Western Norther Carolina. Amythyst Kiah draws heavily on Old Time music (Mississippi Sheiks, Son House, Roscoe Holcombe, Carter Family, Jimmie Rogders), and is inspired by vocal stylings of R&B and Country music from the '50s-'70s (Big Mama Thornton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn). She also draws from contemporary popular artists that have similar powerful vocal integrity (Adele, Florence and the Machine, Janelle Monae, Joss Stone). Needless to say, Amythyst has got a lot of tools in her vocal tool box, and is also well on her way to joining the powerhouse vocalist pantheon.

Amythyst studies old time music at East Tennessee State University; she received her B.A. in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies, and is continuing to study music at the graduate level in Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. She is a current member of the East Tennessee State University Old Time Pride Band, the premier old time band that travels regionally and even internationally. She has opened for Tim O'Brien and Rosie Flores, and she has played at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival 2012 alongside the Ebony Hillbillies and Sparky and Rhonda Rucker. She also played "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" with Wayne Henderson for the Crooked Road Edition of Virginia Tourism Coporation's Web Series.