Amanda Shea is an international multidisciplinary artist residing in Boston, Massachusetts.
Amanda Shea is a three-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, publicist, host, and curator. She has hosted and produced numerous intergenerational poetry/hip hop events as well as performed at festivals; including Boston Calling, BAMSFest (Boston Art & Music Soul Festival), and the Jos Literary Festival in Nigeria.
Services
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617Peak
CompanyOne
Various Boston Public Schools
Missionsafe (Previously)
Medicine Wheel Productions (Previously)
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“I don’t even know Amanda all that well. All I know is that she deserves the heck out of this award and she is a ray of light to ALL those in the hip hop industry: and probably to a lot who lost their light. I don’t need to have met Amanda to see she is a selfless giver, and to see she does it unconditionally.”
— Shawn Patel
Selected Profiles
Boston Music Awards 2022 Spoken Word Artist of the Year
“It’s overdue, but so important,” Shea said. “I don’t think people knew how much, on a local level, that poets were collaborating with rappers and musicians and R&B artists [...] we are utilized a lot for our voices because it’s our instrument.”
Shea emphasizes the importance of recognizing the connection between poetry and music. “Before some of your favorite rappers were rappers, they were poets," she said. "I think that’s why it’s super important to not only, like, highlight and amplify the work that spoken artists in the city are doing and beyond, but also understanding, like, we are an art form.”