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Amanda Somerville (Amanda Somerville-Scharf) was born on 7 March, 1979 in Flushing, Michigan, United States, is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Amanda Somerville's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?

Popular As Amanda Somerville-Scharf
Occupation Singer-songwriter
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 7 March, 1979
Birthday 7 March
Birthplace Flushing, Michigan, United States
Nationality United States

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1979

Amanda Somerville (born March 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and vocal coach who resides in Wolfsburg, Germany.

She is known primarily for her work with many European symphonic metal bands.

Somerville was raised in Flushing, Michigan.

1997

She attended Flushing Senior High School, original graduating class of 1997, however graduating a full year early in 1996 and winning a scholarship for graduating with high honors to the University of Michigan–Flint, where she majored in psychology.

1999

Somerville moved to Wolfsburg, Germany in 1999, where she resided for several years, working mainly in Germany and the Netherlands.

2008

In 2008, she toured America with Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, while regular vocalist Simone Simons recovered from a staph infection.

Somerville was also one of the live guest vocalists for Tobias Sammet's metal opera Avantasia world tours in 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Her role onstage included singing backing vocals during the whole setlist and performing lead vocals for the songs "Farewell," "The Wicked Symphony," "Lost in Space" and "Sign of the Cross."

2010

In 2010, she collaborated with Michael Kiske (Helloween singer) on a musical project entitled Kiske/Somerville.

The band is a melodic metal act put together by Frontiers Records, a similar project as Allen/Lande.

Songwriting and producing was done by Primal Fear bassist Mat Sinner with collaboration by guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Allen/Lande, also from Primal Fear), Sander Gommans, Jimmy Kresic and Somerville herself.

Their first single, "Silence", was released on August 20.

Their self-titled album was released on 24 September 2010 by Frontiers Records, after the single accompanied by a music video for "Silence".

A music video was also made for the song "If I Had One Wish."

Somerville contributed creatively to the album by writing three of its songs: "A Thousand Suns," "Arise" and "Set Afire," all co-written with Sander Gommans.

2011

In 2011, Somerville finally released her first heavy metal-oriented project, called Trillium, the album entitled Alloy, with the record company Frontiers Records.

The project has contributions by Sascha Paeth, Michael Rodenberg, Sander Gommans and a guest appearance of Jørn Lande on a duet vocal track with Somerville.

2012

In 2012, she appeared on the song "Black Swan", a duet with Göran Edman on the debut album The Mystic Technocracy - Season 1: The Age of Ignorance.

2013

On August 19, 2013, she announced that she was engaged to be married to After Forever's former guitarist Sander Gommans, and the pair were married on July 26, 2014.

2014

In 2014, a new HDK album called Serenades of the Netherworld was released, featuring Somerville and Geert Kroes on vocals, and once again produced and composed by Sander Gommans.

This was also the year Somerville and Gommans were married.

Somerville was also part of a metal opera project from the Middle East, produced by Lebanese guitarist Amadeus Awad, with an album called The Book of Gates.

She played the part of the Queen of the Nile.

2015

On January 8, 2015, she announced that she and Gommans were expecting their first child.

On July 17, 2015, their daughter, Lana Elise Gommans, was born.

In 2015, the second Kiske/Somerville album, entitled City of Heroes, was announced and released, once again featuring bassist Mat Sinner as producer and in a songwriting partnership with guitarist Magnus Karlsson, who was also in charge of the keyboards, while Veronika Lukesova was the drummer.

The song "Breaking Neptune" was written by Somerville and Gommans, and two music videos were filmed for the songs "City of Heroes" and "Walk on Water".

2016

In 2016, she was featured again in the "Flash Gordon Suite", from Queen's soundtrack of the same name, on the album The Heisenberg Diaries - Book A: Sounds of Future past.

Called Exit Eden, it features Somerville and three other female singers from the rock/metal scene: Clémentine Delauney (Visions of Atlantis, Serenity, Melted Space, Kai Hansen & Friends), Marina La Torraca (who replaced Somerville in a few festival shows of the Avantasia 2016 world tour) and newcomer Anna Brunner.

2017

In 2017, another new project was announced.

2018

In 2018, their identical twin daughters Anya and Juliet were born.

Somerville has written and recorded with bands such as After Forever, Edguy, Kamelot, Epica, Avantasia, and Docker's Guild, and has produced two solo albums.

Her solo releases to date are primarily soft and elegant pop rock with some hard rock, folk and soul music influences.

Somerville herself wrote and contributed instrumentally to all of the songs on her solo albums, with only one exception, "Out" from the album Windows (written by Sascha Paeth).

She collaborated with several of these metal bands alongside producers Sascha Paeth and Michael Rodenberg, which led her to collaborate with multi-instrumentalist Robert Hunecke-Rizzo, co-writing the rock opera Aina.

Later she made a similar collaboration with guitarist Sander Gommans (After Forever), providing vocals and lyrical concept for the project HDK.

In 2018, the name of the project was updated to "Amanda Somerville's Trillium" and the 2nd album was released, entitled Tectonic.

A video was filmed and released for the song "Time To Shine" and lyric videos were released for the tracks "Shards" and "Full Speed Ahead."

Somerville was featured on Douglas R. Docker's space metal opera Docker's Guild.

2019

She parted ways with Avantasia in 2019, citing personal reasons.