Amanda Somerville (born March 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and vocal coach.

Biography
Personal life
Somerville was born in Flushing, Michigan, and attended Flushing Senior High School and the University of Michigan in Flint, Michigan. Somerville moved to Wolfsburg, Germany in 1999 where she has since resided, working mainly in Germany and the Netherlands.

Singing career
Somerville has written and recorded with bands After Forever, Edguy, Kamelot, Epica, Avantasia and Docker's Guild, and has produced two solo albums. Her music focuses on soft and elegant pop rock with some hard rock, folk and soul music influences.

She has collaborated with several of these metal bands alongside producers Sascha Paeth and Michael Rodenberg, which took 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 2008, she toured America with Dutch heavy metal band Epica, while regular vocalist Simone Simons recovered from a staph infection.

In 2010, she has collaborated with Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween singer) on a musical project entitled Kiske/Somerville. The band is a melodic metal act put together by Frontiers Records, as similar project as Allen/Lande. Songwriting and producing was made by Primal Fear bassist Mat Sinner with collaboration by guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Allen/Lande, also from Primal Fear), Sander Gommans, Jimmy Kresic and Amanda 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.

Amanda was also one of the live guest vocalists for Tobias Sammet's metal opera Avantasia two world tours in 2008 and 2010. Her role onstage was mainly singing backing vocals during the whole setlist and lead vocals for the song Farewell.

In 2011, Amanda has finally released her first heavy metal-oriented project called Trillium 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 Amanda.

Discography
Solo
In the Beginning there was... (2000)
Blue Nothing (EP, 2000)
Never Alone (EP, 2003)
Windows (2009)
Aina
Days of Rising Doom (2003)
HDK
System Overload (2008)
Kiske/Somerville
Kiske/Somerville (2010)
Trillium
Alloy (2011)

Collaborations
Somerville's contributions include vocals, coaching, production and choir conductor:

After Forever – Invisible Circles (2004), Remagine (2005), After Forever (2007); vocal coach, vocalist, producer
Aina - Days of Rising Doom (2003); conceptualist, lyrical editor, co-writer, vocalist, vocal coach
Andre Matos – Time to Be Free (2007), Mentalize (2009); lyrical choir, vocalist and lyrical editor
Asrai – Touch in the Dark (2004): lyrical editor
Avantasia – The Scarecrow (2008); The Flying Opera (live album) (2011): vocalist
Docker's Guild – The Mystic Technocracy - Season 1: The Age of Ignorance (forthcoming); vocalist
Edguy – Hellfire Club (2004), Rocket Ride (2006); vocalist, lyrical editor
Epica – The Phantom Agony (2003), We Will Take You with Us (2004), Consign to Oblivion (2005), The Road to Paradiso (2006), The Divine Conspiracy (2007), live session singer for USA Canada tour (2008), Design Your Universe (2009); vocal coach, vocalist, co-writer, producer
HDK – System Overload (2008); vocalist, co-producer, co-writer, lyrical editor, engineer
Kamelot – The Black Halo (2005), Ghost Opera (2007), Poetry For The Poisoned (2010); vocalist, lyrical editor
Luca Turilli – Prophet of the Last Eclipse (2002); vocalist
Mob Rules – Hollowed Be Thy Name (2002); vocalist
Shaman – Ritual (2002), Reason (2005); vocalist, lyrical editor
Virgo – Virgo (2001); worked as vocalist, lyrical editor
Sebastien - Tears Of White Roses (2010); vocalist
Serenity - Death & Legacy (2011); vocalist