Michigan native Amanda Egerer is a performing folk musician and New Evangelization student at JPCatholic. Her ardent faith and liveliness shines through her work and onto those around her. She shares her journey of how she got to where she felt called God her to be and the release of her new album.
Amanda was coincidently passing through Escondido while on a spring break trip to the San Diego Zoo when she discovered JPCatholic. The 23-year-old expressed, “It was kind of crazy, everything happened so quickly.” After spotting the university on the Cardinal Newman Guide, her love of performing arts and media led her directly to JPCatholic. “I had never experienced something that had worked out so well. It was serendipity.”
After graduating…show more content… Her ardent faith and liveliness shines through her work and onto those around her. She shares her journey of how she got to where she felt called God her to be and the release of her new album.
Amanda was coincidently passing through Escondido while on a spring break trip to the San Diego Zoo when she discovered JPCatholic. The 23-year-old expressed, “It was kind of crazy, everything happened so quickly.” After spotting the university on the Cardinal Newman Guide, her love of performing arts and media led her directly to JPCatholic. “I had never experienced something that had worked out so well. It was serendipity.”
After graduating from high school in 2012, Egerer, originally pursuing classical music, studied for two years at a community college before deciding to take some time off school. Amanda shares she discerned the religious life for this period of time. “In discerning religious life, I eventually had to let go of my pride and realized I was called to marriage.” During this time off, Amanda also continued to search for what she was called to do artistically. “I discovered folk music through listening to the Avett Brothers. I loved it so much I began to look up female folk musicians and Joan Baez came up. After hearing her songs- which I found to be so beautiful- it was like home, exactly what I had been looking
