Amythyst Kiah

[2] She has also appeared (along with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell) on the album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019).

[4] Kiah is a graduate of East Tennessee State University, where she completed the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program and joined the school's marquee old-time band.

[citation needed] On 14 January 2022, she released a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".

[5] Kiah has also appeared (along with Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell) on the album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019).

[13] She has stated that making music has helped her cope with anxiety around her identity, and that she sees it as a means of increasing the visibility of Black creators.

Amythyst Kiah at the Purbeck Valley Folk Festival on the Big Barn stage.
Amythyst Kiah gives a performance in 2015.
Amythyst Kiah and fellow ETSU students play at the Carter Family Fold in December 2010.