AMES Releases EP 'My Name Is Ames'

Today singer/songwriter AMES put releases her EP, My Name Is AMES (April 5).

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.

Since then, AMES has been working hard in the industry, writing for 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. Her third single, "Old Hero," was inspired by true events and actual heroes in her life- one who died actually saving her life and the lives of eight others and the other, her friend Jaron D. Holliday, an incredibly talented pianist who died in while serving in Iraq. She followed with "Mama It's Me," a love letter to her mother, confronting their complex relationship.

With her EP which FADER labeled a batch of "majestic bops that pull from the realities of her queer life," AMES is set for a huge 2019.