2010-09-30
Hello Everyone, Hope you´re all feeling good and that you´ve had a great start to the autumn. It has been almost a month since I last wrote in my thread and a lot has happened since then :) In August I was in Stockholm and in Halmstad where I recorded “Only you”, “True colors”, “Ready to fly”, “Perfect” and acoustic versions of “What’s in it for me”, “It’s my life” and “Shooting star”. It was so much fun recording some new versions of the older songs. Especially “It’s my life”, the acoustic version is so much different from the original. I can’t wait until you get to hear it :).
I’ve also performed in a lot of different places. I’ve been at Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, at Skansen, in Vaggeryd, Södertälje, Nässjö and last weekend I was at five different places performing and signing my new single “Only you”. All the concerts have been so much fun!
(Me and Lisa trying to get away from the wasps that were surrounding us at Skansen)
At some places I performed with a band, sometimes with dancers and in Nässjö I got to sing with an orchestra. It was so much fun, especially seeing as I got to sing some songs I’ve never sung on stage before. My favourite song that I sung in Nässjö was “Smoke on the water”.
At the beginning of September my whole family and me + my sister Lisas friend who also happens to be called Lisa were in Stockholm for the premiere of the film “Princess Lillifée”. It was really nicely decorated with a pink carpet, pink cakes and sweets. All the girls were dressed up as princesses and some of the boys were dressed up as princes. My little sister Holly was so beautiful wearing a pink dress and fairy wings. I also styled her hair like a princess!
It was so much fun to hear my voice come out of a cartoon characters body. It was also extra special because it was the first time my baby brother Charlie went to the cinema. I’ve also started my third and final year at hairdressing school. Right now we’re really busy working on a huge project. My friend Amanda and me are going to work on this project all year. We’ve been planning everything for a couple of weeks now and on Saturday we are having a photo shoot with five models. It’s going to be so much fun! Now it’s official! I’m going on tour with “Alice in wonderland” in Sweden. We start in February and will be in different cities almost every weekend until April. It’s going to be so much fun to see so many different theatres in Sweden. We had a great time last time and it’s probably going to be even better this time when we’ll be travelling so much.
My Greatest Hits-album is coming out in almost a months time! It’s going to be great to go on a signing-tour in Sweden and meet so many people. Now I’m going to tidy my room, do my homework and later we’re going to eat tacos cause today it’s “Taco-Thursday” in our house! Have a great evening Lots of love from Amy
2010-08-21
Hi everyone! Hope you are all feeling great and that you´ve all had a nice summer! My summer has been so much fun and very exciting! It feels strange that the summer holidays are nearly over and that I will be going back to school in a few days. Since I last wrote I have been very busy.Amongst other things I have been taking more driving-lessons! It is so much fun and I´ve noticed that I think about driving and talk about driving most of the time! I am really enjoying driving around town.The first time I drove in town I was so exhausted because I had been concentrating so hard but the second time I drove in town I felt much more relaxed so it feels great that it is getting easier and easier:)
I have also been perfoming,sometimes on my own and also as a guest artist on Nanne Grönwalls tour.It really has been such great fun to be a part of Nannes 25-year Jubilée and I am really looking forward to next week when I will be performing at another concert with Nanne.This concert(which sadly is my last one with Nanne) will be in Södertälje.
In July I went to Liseberg with my family.This was probably one of the best days of the summer holidays. We had so much fun going on all the rides.When me and my sister Lisa came back from the ride Balder we found our Dad and Holly standing there waiting for us with a GIGANTIC bar of chocolate that they had won!!We were so surprised and shocked as our family has NEVER won anything like that at a funfair before. Me and Lisa also wanted to win a big price so we went and tried our luck at the “Wheel of Marabou”.At the first try we didn´t win anything. But we decided to give it another go and guess what?? I WON!! A huge box with 2000 grams of chocolate! I was so happy as I have never ever won anything like that before in my life! My mum thought that she would try her luck too after my win. And to our surprise she won at her first and only attempt!! That must have been our lucky day!
This summer I have also been on the Nickelodeon-Tour which has been so much fun.Tomorrow I will be performing at Skansen in Stockholm with the Nickelodeon-Tour and this is their last stop this Summer.I am really looking forward to tomorrow as after the performance in Stockholm I have my own concert in Norrköping at 18.30. During the holidays me and my sisters have been baking and cooking like crazy! Some of the things we made were rhubarb and berry-pie, Swedish cinnamon-buns and we even had a cookery-contest. We’ve had so much fun!
Last week I was in Malmö and performed on a show called “Sommarlovsmorgon”. It’s a morning show for kids. It’s on everyday during the summer holidays. I performed a medley, Shooting star and Up acoustically. It was so much fun to perform those songs in a different way. It was also nice to meet Malin, the hostess of the show. I’ve met her many times and she is always so nice and friendly. Everytime they have a guest the guest (if voted for by the public)has to jump in the water and see what the temperature is so I had to do that as well! It was so cold but still quite nice because it was such a warm day.
A few days ago I was at Ikea in Jönköping decorating an Ikea glass-cabinet.It was really fun as I got to go around the store and choose whatever I liked to fill the cabinet with. The cabinet is now up for auction and all the proceeds go directly to Min Stora Dag! If you would like to bid for the cabinet you can send an e-mail to: family.jonkoping@ikea.com The auction will end on August the 31st 2010.
Today I went to the post office to pick up a really big parcel. I was so happy to see what was in it! It was a really fantastic drawing which a guy in Denmark called Rune had sent to me! Thank you so much! It was a really nice drawing and it looked very much like me!There was also a book with lots of greetings and messages in it for me.Thank you so much to everybody who wrote in this book! It made me so happy to read all your lovely messages.
Hope you all have a great weekend!! Lots of Love from Amy
2010-07-06
Hi Everybody! Hope you are all fine and that your summer has been great so far. Last week was very fun and eventful. Monday 28th of June 2010: We drove to Stockholm in the morning. I was going to do the final dubbing for the movie “Princess Lillifee” which premiers this autumn. It was such great fun! It has been very exciting to see how it´s all done as I´ve never done any dubbing before. You stand in the studio with a microphone,headphones,script and a tv-screen.The film is rolling and there is a digital clock rolling along the bottom of the tv-screen.Whilst you have the script with time-codes you also have to read the lines at the correct time. You have to listen to the english voice in the headphones at the same time so that you can hear the feeling or emotion the character is expressing while she is speaking her lines. There is also a producer in the room next door who will tell you if there is something you have do different or record again. It is really fun work and a lot to think about whilst recording! I am so happy that I got to do the voice of Lillifee in “Princess Lillifee”.She is a very funny caracter and the movie is both exciting and fun. After I was done there we drove home to Jönköping again.
Tuesday 29th of June 2010: In the morning we drove to Gothenburg. The charity “My Special Day” were having a Café-day at Queen Silvias Children´s Hospital in Gothenburg. The Café-days work like this; the patients at the childrens hospital and their parents are invited to a fun day at the Hospital where they can play,make some art and have som special treats(like for example cakes,buns,juice&coffee).I have been to several Café-days and they are always great fun!”My Special Day” does such fantastic work! I was playing, talking to and singing with the children. Spending the whole day with them there was so much fun. I even managed(with a little guidance)to make a spider with some pipe-cleaners)Afterwards we went home to Jönköping.
Wednesday 30th of June 2010: Today I had a little lie-in. We drove up to Stockholm around lunchtime to rehearse with Nanne Grönwalls band. On the Saturday Nanne was having her Tour-Première and I was going to be her guest-artist. Nannes band was fantastic! We rehearsed all the songs I was going to sing and a little later Nanne arrived and we rehearsed the songs we were going to do together.It went really well and it was great fun!
Afterwards we drove back to Jönköping.Me and my younger sister Lisa had bought tickets for the première of “Eclipse” and it was starting at 18.00.We had plenty of time to drive back but hit the biggest traffic-jam I have ever seen.We were stuck in traffic for what seemed like an eternity.I really didn´t think we were going to make it in time.Luckily we arrived at the cinema at 18.06. Me and Lisa rushed in and bought some popcorn and snacks,ran up the stairs apologizing to everyone already sitting in their seats while we squeezed passed and managed to sit down EXCACTLY when the film started. Now I am forever grateful for all the commercials at the cinema,thanks to them the film started 8 minutes later than scheduled. Thursday 1st of July 2010: Today I was at home taking it easy. I went shopping in town with my Mum during the day and in the evening we drove up to Arlanda to sleep as we had a very early flight for Kiruna the next morning. Friday 2nd of July 2010: Our flight up to Kiruna took an hour and a half. A bus waited for us at the airport and we were given our passes and schedule for the day. Me and Nanne did radio,tv and newspaper-interviews and had some pictures taken. We did a soundcheck later on. It was so exciting to be back in Kiruna again.I was there 5 years ago excactly on the day when I did my own very first summertour! Before the concert I had something to eat and got myself ready. The concert started at 20.00. There were so many people in the crowd and it was such a great audience,they were really up for a good show! I really had such a great time!
Saturday 3rd of July 2010: We flew back to Arlanda,Stockholm in the morning and then drove straight back to Jönköping.We hired the Movie “Alice in Wonderland” as it had just come out on DVD and I watched it with my sisters as they hadn´t seen the movie before. It was just as good as it was when I watched it the first time. Sunday 4th of July 2010: We just couldn´t keep away. Eclipse was so good that me and Lisa went to see it AGAIN. It´s really the best Twilight-movie so far! Monday 5th of July 2010: Today I went to the hairdresser´s and had a colour and cut.I felt like doing something completely different this time. I had it coloured with A LOT of red!! It feels great and very exciting with something completely new! After the hairdresser´s I had a driving-lesson.We drove on some bigger roads this time and I was doing 70 km/h. For me it felt like a very high speed as I up til now have only been driving on the smaller roads in town.
That´s what I´ve been up to during the past week. I Wish you all a wonderful week! Lots of Love Amy
2010-05-28
Hi Everybody! Hope all of you are feeling great! I’ve had a great week. On Monday I was in Stockholm and began recording the voice for Lillifee in the film “Prinsessan Lillifee”. It will premiere in the fall and I’m really excited about it! It was so much fun learning how to and recording the voice. I can’t wait until it comes out.
Wednesday evening was a really important evening to all my classmates and me. For four weeks we’ve been planning and preparing for our school project. The project was a really large group task (the whole class, 25 girls). We researched about how the fashion in hair and clothes has evolved starting from the ancient times and going all the way up to the present. We decided to put on a fashion show and after many weeks of preparing the day had finally arrived! We had our fashion show on Wednesday night and it went really well. All the girls in my class styled their models with really cool hairstyles and great clothing. My area was the age of enlightenment and my model was my little sister Lisa. It was so much fun! We had around 25 models that we had to style, dress and put make-up on. It was a really nice evening.
Yesterday I was at school and after school I went to the salon and cut two customers hair. It was so much fun! Hope you have a great Friday :) Lots of love from Amy
2010-05-17
Hi Everybody! Hope You are all feeling great and that You have had a wonderful weekend. My weekend has been absolutely fantastic and very eventful. Yesterday I performed and hosted “Art Dance´s” end of term Danceshow. It was a fantastic show with lots of different styles of dances and everyone(all the dancers and staff) there were so nice and friendly, it was a great event to be part of!
Today I witnessed a historic Swedish event at Liseberg in Gothenburg! The wedding between the Swedish Icecream-clown and his girlfriend.It really was a fantastic wedding!! It was a great honour for me to sing at their wedding! Hope You have a wonderful week! Lots of Love from Amy
2010-04-15
Hi Everybody! Hope your day has been great. My day has been absolutely amazing! It feels so amazing and strange to turn 18. I still can’t believe it’s really happened! Thank you so much for all of your letters, presents and birthday-messages. I love reading them all! Today has been one of the most special days so far. Thank you so much for making my 18th birthday extra special! Lots of love from Amy
2010-04-01
Hello Everybody, Hope you are all feeling great. I cannot thank you all enough for voting for me and making me the winner of Best Swedish artist/group at Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards! At the weekend we did the last of the Alice-shows! It’s been so much fun and I’ve learned so much! I have also done a photoshoot for my Greatest Hits Album which will be released this Autumn. I am in the middle of answering your questions. It is taking a little time as you had so many questions. You really came up with some good, fun and interesting questions :) Now its Easter break and it feels wonderful to have a whole week off! Hope you all have a wonderful Easter and that the sun is shining where you live! Lots of love from Amy
2010-02-26
Hi Everybody! Hope your week has been great! The last two weeks have been amazing. I’ve been performing at the Maxim Theatre as Alice in the musical “Alice in wonderland”. I’ve also been in school, worked in a salon, cut five peoples hair and coloured two peoples hair. I’ve been taking piano-lessons and I took a math test. This weekend I’ll be performing four times at the Maxim theatre and on Monday I’m going to the Swedish premiere of the movie “Alice in Wonderland”. I can’t wait! I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for a very long time :). Last week I received the gold disc for my latest album “Swings and Roundabouts”. I also got a special surprise from my record company. It was an Ipod with a message engraved on the back of it! I was so happy and surprised when I got it. Have a great weekend! Lots of love from Amy
2010-02-14
Hi Everybody! Happy Valentines day! Hope you all had a great weekend! My weekend has been great :). I did four Alice in wonderland shows and I also went to the cinema and saw ”Up in the air”. It’s a great movie! Have a great week! Lots of love from Amy
(A picture that was taken last summer)
2010-02-05
Hi Everybody! Hope January has been a great month for all of you. I’ve managed to get a lot of things done this month; mainly getting my room tidier than it’s ever been ;) I’ve also been in school where I’m studying to become a hairdresser. I’ve been working at a hair salon once a week and in school we have our own salon where we cut and colour customer´s hair. Today I had two costumers. One in the morning and in the afternoon my sister Lisa came in to the salon to have her hair cut and coloured by me. Lisa before...
...and after
Friday is my favourite day because that’s when we get to cut and colour real customers. It’s so exciting because we learn so much about hairdressing. Tomorrow I’ll be back in Stockholm for a weekend of “Alice in Wonderland” shows. We’ll be having shows all weekends in February and March- I’m so excited!
(Me and my sister Holly backstage at the Maxim theatre) Have a great weekend! Lots of love from Amy
2010-01-01
Hi Everybody! Just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year! Hope 2010 will be the best year so far!! Lots of love from Amy
2009-12-24
Hi Everybody! Hope all of you are feeling great. I’m so excited -it's Christmas Eve! I can’t understand that it’s already Christmas Eve. It feels so incredibly fun and exciting. For me and my family this Christmas will be very special as it’s my little brother Charlies first Christmas ever!!
The premiere of "Alice in Wonderland" is in only two days! I’ve been waiting for that day for a long time so it feels great that it’s nearly here! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and that you get everything you wish for. Lots of love from Amy
2009-04-11
Hi everybody! Happy Easter!! Hope you're having a great easterweekend :) Lots of love from Amy
2009-01-25
Hi everybody! Hope all of you are feeling great. I’ve had a great week! This year I’m going to compete in the “Swedish song contest” The winner of the competition gets to represent Sweden in the Eurovision song contest. My semifinal is on the fourteenth of February so there’s only 20 days left until I get to compete with my song “It’s my life”. I’m so excited! This week I went to Stockholm and rehearsed with the choreographer Tine and my dancers. I also got to try on the clothes that I’m going to wear. I then met with the hairstylist and discussed how I wanted to have my hair. Everything feels great! I can’t wait until you get to see my performance! Hope you’ve had a great week!
Lots of love from Amy
2009-01-01
Hi everybody! Hope you’ve had a lovely evening. Just wanted to wish you all a happy new year!! Lots of love from Amy Diamond
2008-12-24
Hi Everybody! Hope You all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
2008-10-18
Hi everyone! Hope you’re all feeling great! I’ve been really busy lately finishing the recordings of my Christmas album. I’m also studying to become a hairdresser- It’s really fun! I’ve really learnt a lot about hairdressing these last couple of weeks. I’ve also been on a signing tour this autumn- It’s been great meeting everyone. Hope you’ve had a great week and that your weekend is good too :) With love from Amy
2008-08-04
Hi! First I want to apologize for not writing here for a while. I´ve been so busy and haven´t always been near a computor while on tour. I hope you´ve all had a great summerholiday so far!For me this summer has been the best ever!I´ve really enjoyed meeting so many of you on my tour and I want to thank you all for turning up to my concerts! Hopefully the sun is shining where you are. Outside my window right now the rain is pouring down. Tomorrow I´m going to Piteå-hope the weather is better there :) Have a Great day:) Amy Diamond When we arrived in Umeå a guy called Miccke picked us up in this really cool car.Heres a picture of me behind the wheel ;)
At the Hotel in Umeå, morning after the concert
On our way to Östersund we had to fly in a Private Plane-it was great fun!
And we´re off!
It was great fun performing in Östersund-the crowd was fantastic!
Home again after two days up north :)
A picture of me from Åland Rock-Off.I love Candyfloss!
In Sjöbo I got to hold a real snake(!) backstage
2008-06-10
Hello Lovely People!! Im sorry i havent had time to post a new blog for a while.Ive been really busy with my final exams at school and the signingtour.Its been so great to meet all of you at these signings! The Summertour starts on Friday at the Themepark Liseberg-Im really looking forward to it and hope to see as many of you there as possible :D On this Summertour Ill be touring with a live band,backingsingers and my dancers!Its going to be so much fun and I cant wait for it to begin!! Ive been rehearsing with the band and the backingsingers and they are really good :D School finishes on Friday so Im really excited about that and about getting my final grades ;) Before Schools out Ill be going to the Swedish “Prom”!! Ive found the perfect dress and its going to be so much fun!! On Sunday Im going to perform at Gröna Lund in Stockholm for the extremely important Charity Childhood!!Im really looking forward to it :)Im also going into the Studio to record a song on Sunday!! I cant tell you all what its for as it is not official yet but Im really excited about it and I promise to tell you all about it once its official ;) Wishing you all a Great Week :) /Amy Diamond
(Rix fm festival Linköping)
2007-12-03
Hello :) Hope you´re all feeling good and that you´ve had a good weekend! The past week has been great fun with lots of interviews and promotion for my new album. Last Thursday I did an album-signing in Upplands Väsby and I performed a few songs! On Saturday I performed on the televised Charityshow Faddergalan-it was such fun! I was honored to sing with the band Blacknuss backing me. They are amazing musicians and superfriendly people! I have now also got my own Stardoll! Hope you like it :) Today I´ve done lots of tests at school and I´m finally done with my homework! On Saturday I´m going to Gothenburg (Stadium XXL) and Gävle to perform and sign my new album! It´s going to be really fun! Have a great week! /Amy Diamond
2007-10-27
Hello Everyone! This past week has been great fun and I´ve been really busy!! Last weekend I recorded the last songs. The Album is ready, yippie!! I can´t wait until you get to hear it. On Monday I was in Stockholm doing a fashion shoot for the magazine Julia and their winter special. It was really fun and the clothes were really nice. Yesterday I was in Stockholm and recorded the program “Så ska det låta”. It was one of the most fun things I´ve ever done. Next week will be great too. It´s midterm break and I´m going to spend some time with my friends and take it easy but I´ll also have some great fun at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards on Tuesday! I can´t wait! On Wednesday I´m going to make the video for the second single-I can´t wait!! On Saturday I´m going to perform “Is it love?”. I´m really looking forward to going back to Bingolotto-it´s always feally fun there. Tomorrow I´m going to be on the chat at 19.00.Hope to see you there! Best Wishes Amy Diamond
2007-07-05
Hi Everybody! I hope you’ve had a great week. My week has been great! Last week I performed with the Original Elvis band (The TCB-band). It was really fun. The band was awesome and the audience was great too. Last week I also performed on the Swedish Tv-show called “Bobster”. I performed my new single “Is it love?”, it was so much fun! This weekend I’m going up to Stockholm to record the last couple of songs for the album. I can’t wait until you get to hear it! I’m really pleased with all the songs and I can’t wait till I’m going on my signing tour!
Lots of love from Amy Diamond
Me and Malin at the Bobsterstudio