Amy van Singel
Amelia ("Amy") van Singel (October 11, 1949 – September 19, 2016) was an American blues journalist and radio host. She co-founded Living Blues magazine with her then husband, Jim O'Neal, and was posthumously inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
Life and career
Amy van Singel was born in
There, she met fellow blues fan Jim O'Neal, and began broadcasting on
She and O'Neal published the magazine from their home in Chicago until 1983, when production moved to Oxford, Mississippi. She also had a radio show on WXFM in the early 1970s. The couple remained in Chicago until 1986; they divorced the following year. Van Singel moved to Oxford, and then to Memphis, Tennessee, where she also had a radio show. Later, she moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she again had her own radio show, for ten years.[2]
She remarried and moved to Ellsworth, Maine, in 2010. She died in her home there in 2016, aged 66.[2] She was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.[3]