Amy Wadge

For more than three decades, Amy Wadge has been quietly shaping the emotional vocabulary of modern pop. If you have fallen in love, fallen apart, or found a shard of yourself in a song at any point over the past 30 years, chances are she had a hand in it.

Yet despite the global reach, the Grammys, the chart successes and the cross-genre acclaim, Wadge remains, at heart, a performer. With 35 years on stage and in studios, she has built a reputation as a natural storyteller who is warm, self-deprecating and sharply funny. Whether writing with A-list artists or mentoring emerging talent, her guiding question remains disarmingly simple: how do you turn real life into a song the world wants to sing?

In the end, it always comes back to the same thing: one woman, a guitar, and the stories behind the soundtrack of our times.

With special guest, The Goudies.