Music like Ruby Amanfu

Ruby Amanfu is a singer and songwriter based out of Nashville, Tennessee. She is best known for recording and touring with Jack White. She has also worked with Sam Booker in the band Sam & Ruby, and she appeared with the a cappella group The Collective on the voice competition program The Sing-Off.

Ruby Amanfu was born in Accra, Ghana to a musical family of five. When she was three years old, her father moved the family to Nashville, TN, where early on she began to flourish around the sights and sounds of Music City. She started writing songs at a young age and entered a school talent show in third grade where she took home the first place prize: a pack of 10 gumballs.

More talent shows followed, as well as a knack for literary competitions wherein she discovered her passion for writing song lyrics. She was educated in the private and magnet school systems and attended high school at the prestigious Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School, whose premiere Fine Arts program afforded her the opportunity to write and record songs in the school’s studio. In her sophomore year of high school, Amanfu was chosen for The Nashville Symphony Chorus, becoming the youngest member of the group at age 15. She performed with the group for one season.