Amy Pearson is Ready to Fly

March 27, 2008
by Rodney Olsen
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amypearson.jpgSinger / songwriter Amy Pearson grew up in Birmingham in the UK.

She began singing at the age of 3, and writing songs at the age of 6.

It wasn’t long before she was performing in bands and taking part in talent competitions.

Back in 2003 Amy came to the attention of Take That’s Gary Barlow who helped Amy to move her career forward.

Amy Pearson is now living and working in Australia and her latest single, Ready to Fly, has been chosen as the theme for Channel 7’s Olympic coverage later this year. She joined me by phone on my morning radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM today.

It may seem to some that she’s an overnight success but there are a lot of years behind her musical career and I’m sure that there’ll be a lot more to come in the years ahead.

Amy’s album, Who I Am, is set to be released soon. We chatted about some of the people that helped along the way musically to bring the album together and the fact that she’d written a lot of songs before the album came together. Out of the 70 or so songs she had penned, Amy had to choose just 13 tracks to appear on the album.

You can listen to our chat by clicking play on the audio player at the bottom of this post.



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Who'll stop the rain?

January 31, 2008
by Rodney Olsen
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Have you seen that authorities in Beijing have successfully managed to stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony for the Olympic Games?

There’s no roof on the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium, so the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been given the job of developing methods of preventing wet weather spoiling the spectacular opening to the Games on the evening of the 8th of August.

I wonder what was going through the minds of those at the bureau when they were first told that they needed to not only forecast the weather but control it. They must have thought it was quite a joke until they realised the authorities were deadly serious.

All I can say is that I they do have any rain that they don’t want, they’re welcome to send it our way.



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