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Amelia Presley’s Upcoming Single “Harm Nobody Else” is Her Own Story of Survival
When you hear Amelia Presley sing, it is impossible not to hear pangs of profound sorrow wrapped in a soulful voice fraught with struggle and deeply buried secrets. It’s a burned up and scarred over foundation from which her songs have been harvested, and she a phoenix born of the very flames that have tried to consume her completely. Through her newly acquired liberation from her own emotional self-imprisonment, she aims only to set the record straight with the release of her new single “Harm Nobody Else,” and in so doing, act as key-bearer to others who find themselves in that same kind of bondage. Presley doesn’t want pity. She only wants you to listen.
The song took only minutes to write, but was over 25 years in the making. Physical abuse is often that way, something that is kept in the shadows out of shame until one tear drop too many falls and forces the flood gates to open. From the age of 3 years old to the age of 15, she silently bore the crushing blows of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her stepmother. With this declaration she hopes to help other survivors validate their own feelings by facing them head on rather than living under the burden of their abuser’s secret.
Enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard to fund your music passions. Selling your horse and trailer to get your first Nashville studio session. Which artists and songs inspired you to choose a music career?
I love this question because I don’t have a very typical answer. Years ago I would’ve searched my brain to come up with what I was “supposed” to say, but I’m finally at a point in my life and career where I can think more clearly and remember more clearly. I…
