>> at silylvia young, she met a guy called tyler james, great friend, in the house with her that nightanagement team called 19. they asked me to come down, she was under 18. i had to sign the forms for her. i went down, they said your daughter is absolutely fantastic. they sent some tracks. i never heard her sing on a cd before. they sent us some of the tracks that she'd done. they were brilliant. at that point, i remember saying to my wife, this is incredible. but really, it's a question of when did this happen? >> you hasn't seen it coming? >> not really, no. not really. >> i heard her sing, a lot of kids could sing. >> it wasn't just singing, she wrote this stuff. she wrote some of the great songs in the last 25 years. where do you think she got that from? >> i'd like to say me, of course. but the truth is that janice, my ex-wife's family, they were professional musicians on that side too. we're all singers on our side. they're the musicians on janice's side. pretty good gene pool one way or the other. >> amy propelled to the stratosphere of music superstardom. the first album did b