Tamela D'Amico
Tamela D'Amico is an award winning American recording artist, actress, and filmmaker, as well as a social influencer, who started her own production company, La Strega Entertainment, in 2006 to create vehicles for the many facets of her career.
D'Amico is known as one of the top 24 finalists on the FOX reality show On the Lot, produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. She gained attention from the show's producers with her heartwarming entry film entitled Volare, starring Federico Castelluccio (The Sopranos), which led her to a first-look deal with DreamWorks. D'Amico began her career in film at Florida State University’s much lauded Film School. After continuing her schooling in Los Angeles at The Lee Strasberg Institute and working in Hollywood for many well known producers, such as Chuck Roven, in all facets and making short films and winning many festival awards, she produced and directed the hit web television series Sex Ed: The Series for which she received the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant. Sex Ed: The Series garnered nominations for both a Streamy Award and a Webby Award and TV Guide listed it in the top 10 of notable television shows worth watching and boasts over 150 Million views on YouTube and counting. D’Amico has gone on to create several TV web serials with Atom Films, Funny or Die, Frog Island, Comedy ETC and Comedy Central and has many feature film and television projects in development through the La Strega Entertainment banner.
Her debut jazz album, Got a Little Story, was executive produced by actor Peter Krause (911, Parenthood, Six Feet Under, The Catch) and 6 time Grammy Award winner, Jimmy Hoyson, and arranged by Multi Grammy nominee, Chris Walden, at Capitol Records Studios under the La Strega Entertainment banner. The album was been picked up by LML Records/The Orchard (SONY) distribution and went into worldwide release. She can be heard on over 140 national radio and cable outlets in various jazz based/Adult Standard & Contemporary markets as well as many International radio and Internet streaming markets. She was named Clear Channel's Best New Jazz Vocalist, the relaunched MySpace's Rising Star, and is in constant rotation on The Penthouse Radio Network, Martini in the Morning, and MUSIC CHOICE's Singer and Swingers channel via satellite, cable, and Internet. D'Amico executive produced an album for 2013 Grammy Winner Billy Vera (known for the hit “At This Moment") entitled BILLY VERA: BIG BAND JAZZ (released on Varese Sarabande/Universal). She also duets with Mr. Vera on the album on the song "I'll Never Be Free". They have been touring together ever since.
As an actress, D'Amico has recurred on the hit Disney Channel show Best Friends Whenever, as nemesis Janet Smythe. She played the younger counterpart to actress Nora Dunn. She can be seen in the feature film Walt Before Mickey with Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie) and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) about the life of Walt Disney and is currently filming the independent film Quinn as well as just finished the independent film 3 People I've Never Heard Of. She stars in the award winning series Englishman in L.A. (Amazon) with actors Cameron Moir (Non Stop), Eddie Jemison (HUNG, Oceans 11, 12,13) and Ashley Fink (Glee) for which she was just awarded "Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Web Series" by LA WEB FEST. Tamela can be heard singing the Bond-esque theme song "Love and the Gun" in both English and Italian in the feature film Rob the Mob (Millennium Films/Lakeshore Records) directed by Raymond De Felitta (City Island). She has just returned to the United States after filming the Indian drama One Little Finger.
Among her other talents, D'Amico is the face of Alison Raffaele Cosmetics LIVE BEAUTIFUL! campaign, representing the porcelain face for the makeup line, as well as Mellow World Handbags and is a Brand Ambassador and social influencer to many International brands. Instagram @tameladamico