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Dominican Republic born, NYC raised and Connecticut educated pierre amour (Sathia Diaz Espejo) began traveling to Brussels,Belgium in December of 2015 and recorded his first EP “BEING m.a.d: The Misadventures of a Druggy” (2016) which showed off his soulful and introspective style. Upon his return to the US he was selected to be the headlining act at the University of Connecticut’s HUKSYTHON 2016 and helped raise over $700k for Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

In the summer of 2017 amour was invited to an artist residency at HET Depot (Leuven) where he began providing songwriting and creative direction services for local artist: DYCE (Dennis Aerts) and Rewind Productions. While in Belgium, amour was based out of the Schaarbeek neighborhood of Brussels where he lived for 6months and began to study world migration. This time period influenced him to focus on creating art that would inspire a future more hospitable to human life, in which cooperation, community and innovation are the forefront of popular culture. At the end of 2017 MANTRA Universe : Global Artist Cooperative was founded by pierre amour. In 2018 amour traveled to Tokyo, Japan to further develop his skills in artist development and worked with emerging artist Wez Atlas and performed at CLUB BED with Japanese DJ/ Producer WATMAN (Wataru Sugiyama).

In 2019 pierre amour began to audit classes at the Berkelee College of Music in Boston and was the headlining act at the BLM Boston: Hands Up! Mics On! benefit concert in Cambridge, MA. In December 2019 pierre amour was invited to Vienna, Austria where he worked as a songwriter and creative director in collaboration with Producer/Compser bAd Entity (Lara Voill). In January of 2020 pierre amour was invited to Antwerp, Belgium and began working with GlassHelder; together they headlined Overlast Festival (2021).

In 2023 pierre amour released “111.1 AM Radio” EP featuring production by the Grammy Award winning Olmo Zucca, bAd Enity, WATMAN, and Belgian producers MAUR¥CE (Maurice De Clerck) and KMFD (Creo Cristoria).

pierre amour’s latest single “BACK” (2024) with its laidback soulful tones, catchy lyrics and jazzy undertones is produced by MAUR¥CE and is the 1st single from their upcoming 5 track EP: MARMALADE. The EP presents a coming of age introspective dive into the mind of pierre amour and his contemplations of life as an ex-academic lyricist with no home base trying to find his way in a world that never stops changing. Everything except for the marmalade that is. The EP features production from various members of GlassHelder and showcases an intense musicality not adhering to any specific genre and still paying homage to the greats.

The first edition of MARMALADE was released as a short run of 23 Dub Plates (SOLD OUT) and is currently only available for digital purchase on BandCamp until its full release in January 2025.

pierre amour is currently on the “Last Bits of Summer: MARMALADE EP Listening Party Tour” which started with 5 events in Barcelona, Spain and is continuing in Brussels, Belgium November 23rd, 24th and 29th. His next single “CONTEND” will be released on November 22nd 2024.