Amy Regan

With her emotive songwriting and warm, soulful vocals edged alongside the mesmerizing sounds of the guitar and piano, 25-year old singer/songwriter Amy Regan is creating music with both purpose and substance. Drawing comparisons to artists as diverse as Fiona Apple and Laura Nyro, Regan has burst onto the NYC music scene playing regularly at venues like Rockwood Music Hall – where she was discovered by a DDB-NY art director who recently came knocking with the opportunity to star in a commercial for Hertz, with Regan and her song “CARRY ON” being central to the commercial’s storyline. The commercial is currently airing nationally.



Remaining unsigned to a traditional label, Regan is quickly gaining awknowledgements from music critics and high profile media outlets such as AOL’s Listening Party, USA Today, as well as numerous online podcasts with Music Connection naming her one of their “Hot 100 Unsigned Artists.”
Regan’s love for music began at an early age. Born and raised in a small town in northern NJ, Regan frequently performed in her middle school and high school choirs and musicals every chance she could get. She started playing piano by ear at age 11, and soon after started learning guitar. It wasn’t long before she was writing her own songs and realized that she had a gift of expressing herself through words. “There’s very often an element of fate to my writing,” she says. “These songs have their own lives or spirits and I’m just the vehicle to put it all together.”



Regan further developed her musical training at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. There, the music major led a 5 part band and spent late nights holed up in the campus studio.



Regan recently released a new EP “Gonna Get Better”, and will tour in 2011.