Reverend Shawn Amos is an award-winning Author, Grammy-nominated Producer, and blues singer-songwriter and recording artist.

Prior to emerging as the Reverend in 2013, folks knew Shawn Amos as producer (Solomon Burke’s Live in Nashville, and Shout! Factory box set Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones), content creator for companies looking for ways to tell their stories on the internet, and Americana singer-songwriter who’d grown up in a dramatically dysfunctional L.A. home, a story the Rev serialized as Cookies & Milk in the Huffington Post.

The youngest son of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie founder Wally Amos and the only son of Shirley Ellis Amos, (professionally known as Shirlee May, in the early 1960s), the Reverend "spent my childhood in shadowy nightclubs, on the funky streets of 70s Hollywood, and in my own broken home, watching folks hustle, intently listening to them spin tales.”

He attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts, leaving in the middle of his senior year to pursue a “first-look” deal with A&M Films as a screenwriter. He married actress Marta Martin in 1999, and they have three children.

Reverend Shawn Amos was hired at Rhino Entertainment's A&R department in 1997 by the department head, Gary Stewart. While at the reissue label, he produced multiple compilations, including the Grammy-nominated historical box set “Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance.” While employed at Rhino Entertainment, he began work on his first album, Harlem, which was first released by Unbreakable Records in 2000. In 2001, Amos produced Quincy Jones' career overview “Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones.”

He's released a half a dozen albums, with his latest, Soul Brother No. 1 (a tip of the hat to James Brown) carries on the tradition of soul artists who have paved the way for Black voices to effect social change through music.

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