Jamie Floyd
Jamie Floyd is a Nashville based three time Grammy-nominated independent songwriter & recording artist. Her writing appears on Madi Diaz’ 2025 Grammy- Nominated album Weird Faith, which was up for Best Folk Album earlier this year, earning Floyd her 3rd Grammy nomination of her career. Diaz released a new version of “For Months Now” that features Lizzy McAlpine (cowritten by Floyd, Diaz & Wrabel), and it appears on her Weird Faith Deluxe album. Diaz’ newest album Fatal Optimist, released October 10, 2025 features new song “Time Difference,” co-written with Jamie. Most recently Jamie also sang on the new single, “Heart Half Empty,” released by Emmy & Tony Award winning Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth & GRAMMY-nominated country music legend Ty Herndon.
Jamie has written songs recorded by Kelly Clarkson, Kesha, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Ashley Monroe, Miranda Lambert, Ronnie Dunn, Sturgill Simpson, Ingrid Andress, Madi Diaz, Lizzy McAlpine, Brian McKnight, Wrabel, Kalie Shorr, Ty Herndon, Jake Hoot, Cassadee Pope, Trousdale, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Carrie Manolakos, Hayden Panettiere, Kellie Picker, Lucie Silvas and more.
Jamie has written extensively for film and television, including writing and performing “Oh Darlin,'" the only original song featured in Theresa Rebeck’s Glimpse, a thriller shot entirely on an iPhone. The film features an all-star cast including Michael Emerson, Alysia Reiner, Raul Esparza and Janet McTeer. She also wrote and recorded “Let it Shine,” which closes out the final scene of the new movie Dakota. Her other credits include writing the “Trouble Get Me Off Your Mind,” performed by R&B superstar Brian McKnight along with penning the finale performed in Dolly Parton’s A Country Christmas Story. She also wrote all the original music including the theme for Lifetime’s Manson’s Lost Girls, starring Jeff Ward, Edin Brolin, Mackenzie Mauzy & Greer Grammar. She also wrote and performed the entire 12 song soundtrack for Burt Reynolds’ award winning final film The Last Movie Star. Jamie and her co-writer John Martin, took home the Nashville Film Festival’s “Best Song in A Feature Film” for “Yet To Come,” the closing song of the Burt movie. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed documentary The Last Songwriter alongside Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris and Jason Isbell.
As a composer & lyricist in musical theatre, Jamie’s work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Paramount Theatre in Chicago and has had a production at Constellation Stage & Screen in Bloomington, IN. She’s had the honor of collaborating with director Tamilla Woodard (Hadestown) & MD Jared Stein (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) among others. Jamie is currently working on a new musical called Killin' It: A Howdy Horror Murder Mystery Musical with playwright Mark Blankenship and director Jesca Prudencio. In May 2025, Killin’ It received a workshop hosted by Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville. Jesca Prudencio was the director. The cast included Emmy Award nominee Chrissy Metz (The Hunting Wives, This Is Us), Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill, Dexter), Judith Hoag (Nashville, Big Love), and Ed Amatrudo (The Alto Knights, Nashville). Jamie was also tapped to write both the music & lyrics for Pat Denson’s Theophany Musical (debuted at TPAC in Fall 2025) and the theme song “Little Christmas Miracles,” for the Off Broadway Christmas play, of the same name, also directed by Pat Denson. Jamie penned the theme song by herself, especially for the show, and made her off Broadway debut as both a songwriter and a performer at The Actors Temple Theater in New York when she closed the show with her performance of the song on opening night.