From AmyRegan.com: Amy Regan cannot remember her life without song. Her childhood was spent falling in love with Disney and Rogers & Hammerstein classics and singing inadvertently everywhere she went. She began classical vocal training at age 11 and soon after began teaching herself piano. At age 13 she became infected with the need to write her own music, and began taking guitar lessons with the goal of singing and performing original material. She quickly became a prolific songwriter, performed in coffeehouses at age 15, and recorded her first album with an 8-track in her basement the same year. She has since then been dedicated to developing her craft as a singer, songwriter, and musician, taking influence from the lyrical integrity of folk musicians Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, the classic melodic and harmonic beauty of songs by George Gershwin and Cole Porter, and the vocal prowess of Eva Cassidy and Ella Fitzgerald.
