Welcome to Songlife - home of Amanda Colleen Williams
Amanda Colleen Williams is an entertainer and second-generation professional songwriter with songs on over 17 million albums sold worldwide.
She developed her Songlife Ready Set Write™ team building program as part of the educational work she does at places like the United States Department of State, k through 12 schools, corporations, and U.S. Embassies around the world.
Entertainer
Entertaining is in my blood, growing up surrounded by my musical dad & uncles in Eastern Tennessee.
I am honored to have performed at Ambassador Andrew Young's birthday galas on four occasions, toured as an official Arts Envoy for the U.S. and won Artist of the Year, a fan voted award from Nashville Independent Music Awards for my one woman show, a Story of Love in its first year debut.
My in house production company Best Ent Show provides an array of entertainment options designed to blur the lines between artist and audience, creating a remarkable, immersive, interactive show.
Songwriter
As a second generation professional songwriter, writing songs means more to me than just getting a number one hit. It's a lifeline to connection, a form of creative self expression, and a way to make a hard earned living, if you do it right.
My greatest successes so far have been co-writing "Beer Run" for Garth Brooks & George Jones, that was nominated for a Grammy for Best Vocal Collaboration, and two other songs recorded by Garth that have garnered me 17 times multiplatinum awarded status measured by albums sold worldwide.
Another highlight has been writing a song with Ambassador Andrew Young called "Jericho Road" that I performed at his 90th birthday party.
Artist Laureate
My Songlife™ vision goes beyond just playing and writing songs.
To me, an artist has a sacred responsibility to serve others as part of their self expression.
The work I have done so far has been in the fields of education and cultural diplomacy through the arts.
Specifically - I used my skills as a field expert, and those gained homeschooling my twins to create curriculum based lesson plans that have been adapted for k12, college, university law schools, corporate team building and even as part of live show entertainment.
Along the way I have studied languages including Spanish, Latin, Romanian and Mandarin Chinese, and have seen hundreds of students of all ages with my fine arts / english language arts programs as an Official Arts Envoy with the United States of America & IP Program Developer / Pilot.
