"My north star is always telling a true story": Amy Allen reflects on her career and Grammy nods

Amy Allen is nominated in four significant categories for the 2026 Grammy Awards. The Maine-based songwriter and producer recently opened up to PEOPLE about her career and Grammy nods.

Amy Allen shared:

"Songs can change people's lives and songs can get them through things. My north star is always telling a true story as honestly as I can."

Notably, Amy Allen did not originally plan on a career in music. The record producer revealed:

"I started off wanting to be a nurse because I wanted to do something that helped people, and it took me a really long time for my brain to feel like writing songs was a way that I could be helpful to other human beings."

More on Amy Allen's works and collaborations

Amy Allen co-wrote Selena Gomez's 2018 track "Back to You." She followed it up with Halsey's hit "Without Me." Amy Allen's other notable chart-topper was her work on Harry Styles' "Adore You."

Speaking about Harry Styles, Amy Allen mentioned:

"Yeah, he was definitely one of the first artists that I got to really be in the room with and dig in real time with and not have it be something that I had written beforehand. The connection that I felt with him immediately, how easy it was to create with him, how inspired I was by him, it fully changed the trajectory, I think, of my career, because then I realized like, "Oh, this is why I love to do this: getting to create with people that inspire me and have it be the artist that's actually going to be performing the song." It just blew the doors open of what I was looking for in my career."

Allen won Album of the Year for her work on Harry Styles' Harry's House at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Allen is nominated for four awards at the upcoming 2026 Grammys. These include Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical, Album of the Year for Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend, and Song of the Year for ROSÉ and Bruno Mars' "APT.", and Carpenter's "Manchild."

Allen shared:

"I was driving from Los Angeles to Sedona, Ariz. for a camping trip, and I knew that the announcements were on. I was sitting with my boyfriend, he was like, "Do you want to put it on or do you want to just wait until we hear?" And I was like, "I usually don't like to put that type of thing [on] because I get stressed." But I was like, "Oh, f**k it. Let's do it.""

She continued:

"And so he put it on. It was the first category that they called, and it happened so quick that we both just looked at each other and I was like, "Oh." Then, I immediately got a phone call from Sabrina and ROSÉ, which was so cute. And I was so excited for them too, because it's just been such a fun year. To be a part of songs that have resonated with the world in the way they have this year… I am so grateful."

Congratulations to Amy Allen!

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