International songstress Ameera, celebrates the release of her third single, Bloom, and a Cassette Award Win for Best Original Song by releasing an acoustic version of bloom exclusively on YouTube.

Ameera performed her newly released hit single at the award ceremony at the famous Hotel Esplanade in St Kilda, on Tuesday night, April 27. This was an incredible achievement for Ameera, as she has been unable to perform live in 5 years due to her crippling stage fright.

The Cassette Awards are a nationwide, Australian award night for acknowledging outstanding achievements in student work across MusicAudio and Entertainment Business Management departments. The nominees are judged and voted by leading industry professionals and JMC Academy lecturers. 

On Tuesday April 27, Ameera took to the stage at the famous 'Hotel Esplanade' in St Kilda, for JMC Academy's 2021 'Cassette Awards'. Ameera performed her cinematic masterpiece 'Bloom' and won 'Best Original Song' for the track. The overwhelming response from the audience, was that Ameera was most deserving of the award.


Fellow nominee 'Tianna Karis' said: “Ameera's sound check was mind blowing and I was telling everyone at the show, just wait until you hear Ameera's performance it’s incredible! 

 

“The night was so beautiful and it was such an awesome opportunity to perform. Ameera definitely got plenty of new fans from last night, like I’m kind of obsessed.  

Ameera hadn't performed live for a number of years due to crippling stage anxiety. Life really changed after Ameera lost her Mum to cancer. Ameera was propelled to heal and move forward with her life after feeling she'd held herself back from living it for too long. 

Ameera owes overcoming trauma and anxiety, to committing to longterm therapy and surrounding life with love and faith. 

When winning the award Ameera said: “The real accomplishment for me tonight, is performing live again. Not just performing, but connecting with everyone and truly enjoying it.

 

“I have previously struggled with stage anxiety and it held me back from doing what I love to do. I want to thank JMC for opening up my entire World, to Nik for mentoring me with my single 'Bloom' thank you to all of you.”

Bloom is about life and death and how we all grow and ‘Bloom’ through our experiences and individual lifetimes. What is interesting specifically about this track is how Ameera paints a song musically rather than describing it. All of the instruments represent the blooming of life.

With Bloom, I opened up and added instruments in a way that sonically represents the blooming of a flower – the bridge dances around chords without key signature before returning to its final state of bloom where I sampled wind-up toys and hit pens and pans to create organic sounding percussion,” Ameera said.

Her mother passed away in 2018. It was a precious moment as Ameera had slept next to her all night holding her hand, listening to her breathing. Her Mum told her she did the same when she was born. After her Mum passed, all Ameera could think about was both birth and death, and how devastating Vs beautiful these moments are; and how they connected in some strange, traumatic, transformative and life changing way.

She realised after such excruciating loss, that people are open to talk about birth; but quick to avoid discussing death. Both events are pivotal in everyone’s life and if openly discussed could create community, rather than separation and loneliness.

Ameera’s own journey with accepting death was to encapsulate her experience with it by writing a song and thus ‘Bloom’ was born. Ameera composed Bloom over two months and continued to push herself to compose the piano in a way she had never done before.