Amy Louise Taylor (born 4 January 1996) is an Australian musician and activist from Mullumbimby, Australia. She is known as a songwriter and lead vocalist of the ARIA Award-winning Australian pub rock and punk band Amyl and the Sniffers, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Early life
Taylor's mother worked at the post office before studying and practising as a psychologist, and her father was a crane-driver and bottle-shop worker who built their house out of repurposed rocks. Taylor's parents moved to Mullumbimby, "counterculture capital of the country", from Western Sydney in the early 1990s and turned more than a hectare of subdivided farmland into bush. Taylor has one older sister, Grace, and the family lived out of one bedroom divided by curtains until Taylor was nine.
Taylor reminisces about growing up in Mullumbimby in the Amyl and the Sniffers song 'Snakes', on the band's second album Comfort to Me. "Dad was a craney and mum worked and studied, I was swimming in the brunny, I was buckteeth and pale".
Taylor worked full-time at her local IGA supermarket after finishing high school and saved money to move to the outer-western suburb of Laverton, Melbourne, aged 19.
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