Amy Stroup Is Aksing For 'Hold Onto Hope Love'

Nashville-based songwriter/singer Amy Stroup has premiered the official music video for the song "Hold Onto Hope Love," from her upcoming 2011 album "The Other Side of Love Sessions," which She partnered with Grammy award-winning producer Nathan Chapman on the project to deliver delicately honest lyrics, pure vocals and smart instrumentation, including all original music to her sultry and sweet songs are sure to please. The track "Hold Onto Hope Love" is also placed in ABC's "Brothers and Sisters," "Private Practice," "One Tree Hill," and "Army Wives."
"I write songs about things I've lived through and 'Hold Onto Hope Love' is a song about waiting for genuine love to come," Stroup said in a telephone interview. Stroup said she recorded the song with producer Thomas Doeve in a basement and has be en surprised with its success. There's a reason Stroup's song "Hold Onto Hope Love" has appeared at poignant moments of ABC's latest season. From an emotional scene as Kitty battles cancer in "Brothers and Sister" to a climatic close o "Private Practice," Stroup's music communicates on levels spoken words can't reach.
Stroup's roots began in Boston, but soon her family moved on to Texas, where she grew up and began her journey into songwriting. Combining the thoughtful depth of Boston and the distinctive Texas style, she engages audience through catchy melodies and lyrics that explore refreshing truths about life, love, and spirituality. On both guitar strings and piano keys, She engages audiences with original lyrics that go beyond typical lyrical terrain.
Stroup draws from a range of geographic locales and musical influences, having called Boston, Texas and now Nashville home. "As a kid, I ripped out a magazine page and taped it to my closet door. It was a picture of a guitar fret board with the words, 'Don't just play it, feel it.' That line became my motto for writing and performing music, and I try to focus on writing simply a great song, one song at a time, and when you are working with people you genuinely enjoy and live life with, the music naturally comes and speaks," says Stroup. Creating quite a buzz as an independent artist, Stroup communicates what she knows is true about life in melodic lyric and verse.