Amythyst Kiah

Amythyst Kiah, of Johnson City, Tennessee, graduated from the Bluegrass, Old-time, and Country Music program at Eastern Tennessee State University, and has hit the ground running since then.

Finding inspiration in old time string band music, alternative rock, folk, country, and blues, Kiah brings her banjo and guitar playing, vocals, and songwriting skills to the stage as a solo artist and with her band, Her Chest of Glass. She was nominated for a Grammy in 2019 for her song Black Myself, which she recorded with the female supergroup Our Native Daughters.

In her interview, Kiah talks about her musical beginnings and introduction to roots music, female performers in different genres, her roots music mentors and influences, lessons from the pandemic, and about the Our Native Daughters project and what it meant to her.