Nate Amor: a singer with local ties and a big dream about to come true at Fargodome

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — When Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings its winter tour to FARGODOME on December 30 for two shows, it’ll feature a performer who knows this area well.

Nate Amor has many relatives in North Dakota and Minnesota.

The singer has had quite a journey from playing bars and clubs to hitting the stages of some of the biggest arenas.

Then I’m walking in Memphis. I’m walking with my feet 10 feet off of Beale.

“It was ’91 went that came out I was a kid sitting by a campfire in northern Minnesota and there was something about his voice and the song and the rest of that whole album that I just on repeat you know.”

Saw the ghost of Elvis was down on Union Avenue.

It’s a song he sang on The Voice, but didn’t get any celebrity judge to turn their chair for him.

Adam Levine told him he didn’t turn because he wanted to hear him “explode”.

He is doing that now by touring with Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a featured vocalist.

You’re as smooth as Tennessee whiskey.

His cover version of Chris Stapleton’s Tennessee Whiskey got him noticed.

“I put that out there and Trans Siberian music director got ahold of me and they needed that style of voice. Yeah 2018 is when I started and it has been a good little holiday tradition.”

That’s also when he got his stage name.

“I’m an Anderson, lot of us in Minnesota and North Dakota. There was a form to fill out for like any dietary restrictions, things like that for the tour, and then one line said ‘stage name’ and I was like you know what, I love being an Anderson, I always will be it’s my legal name but I was like what am I about my music is about: I’m in recovery and sobriety and so a lot of that is spreading hope and ultimately love and so what was the universal name for love, amor?”

Amor has Minnesota ties. He was born at Children’s Hospital St. Paul. He was in a foster home for four months before he was adopted.

“Then I landed in Pequot Lakes/Brainerd area up there. And then but I spent at 10 years old it was the Twins vs. the Cardinals World Series we moved to Minneapolis. (Good timing)”

Most recently he lived in LA, but then love came calling for the artist named after love.

“I fell in love last year, I was in LA for four years and I would never leave the ocean but love called and moved me to Denver.”

Now he’s on the road doing 106 performances in 64 cities with Trans Siberian Orchestra’s “Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO & More” tour soon to hit Fargo.

“And I gotta say, FARGODOME, I mean like I said my aunt and uncle live there and I’d always pass the FARGODOME as a kid and just be like ‘ah what a dream to play there and sing there one day’.

I hope and I scheme to the lure of a night, filled with unfinished dreams.

So with this band I get to sing two songs: lead two songs and do background vocals. And so I’m going to get to be in the FARGODOME singing two songs and that’s just, that’s cool.”

Watch for Nate Amor’s new album release in February called “Love Is The Reason”.

And catch him with TSO on Tuesday, December 30 at FARGODOME for two shows at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.