Biography
Eyram Ruby Amanfu Ashworth is an American recording artist based in Nashville. Amanfu has released seven studio albums and multiple singles. She is known for being one half of the duo Sam & Ruby, whose album was named Associated Press Album of the Year in 2009. Amanfu is also known for her collaborations with Jack White in his all-female band, The Peacocks, and has widely appeared on his critically acclaimed solo albums, Blunderbuss and Lazaretto. In 2020 and 2022, Amanfu was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for co-writing "Hard Place" by H.E.R. and "A Beautiful Noise" by Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile, and was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award. Outside of her musical career, Amanfu is an actress, civil activist, an elected Recording Academy Board Governor, private chef, and food blogger.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lazaretto
2014
Blunderbuss
2012
Lemonade
2016
Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016
2016
Love Interruption
2012
Sixpence None The Richer
1997
I'm Shakin'
2012
Pick Me Up Off The Floor
2020
Live At Third Man Records
2012
Surface Sounds
2021
I Wonder
2013
Wanda Live! At Third Man Records
2011
Write Me A Few Lines
2011
Stand For Myself
2021
Swallowed By The New
2016
Life By Misadventure
2021
Playdate
2020
Volume 1
2017
Standing Still
2015
Free Life
2007
One
2001
Credited work
240 releases · 52 albums · active 1998–2025
- Performance · 597
- Other credits · 43
- Production · 2
Studios: Third Man Studio · Blackbird Studio · Middletree Studios · MHB Productions
Frequent collaborators
- Jack White (2)
- Norah Jones
- Bruce Cockburn
- Matthew S. Nelson
- Sixpence None The Richer
- Charlie Peacock
- Sanne Salomonsen
- Beyoncé