Not all prophets are blind old men aimlessly wandering the desert. Some of them are hip, some are female, and one lives in Athens.

Christened Amanda Kapousouz, this “prophette” is a modern – she wears a nose ring.

She likes to wear dresses and ride her bike around town.

On each forearm she has tattoos representing who she is and where she’s been: her right hand – her teaching children side and her left hand – her musical side.

Meet the Tin Cup Prophette.

When Kapousouz first pursued music in New York City, her dad tied a tin cup to her violin case as a joke. But this mock prophecy came true – the Prophette filled that cup over and over at the subway station.

“Every morning from about 8:30 to 9 I’d head down to the subway station right outside of Time Square and play the violin,” she said. “After about three hours, I would earn up to about 150 bucks. All those quarters add up. It was the way I made a living for a while.”

At night, Kapousouz would meet up with random musicians that saw her playing on the subway.

“After doing it for awhile, you get to know people,” she said. “Some were rude, but overall it was a good experience. I always felt safe and was never afraid.”

Kapousouz went to school but not for music she studied for education. It was at the College of Charleston where she met her long time friends from the band Jump (formerly Jump, Little Children), some of which join her in a side Irish punk band the Dole.

Kapousouz also has been preforming the music for a documentary film and playing modern dance music.

The Prophette’s main focus, however, is her own music, which is the reason she moved to Athens a few years ago.

“I’ve always wanted to perform,” she said. “When I was in New York, I had a job and was playing with five other bands. I had no time for myself. I’m done doing that.”

That isn’t to say that the Prophette has retired her guest artist role. She’ll still play with Liz Durrett and Claire Campbell. And she will continue to play the violin for husband, Bain Mattox's albums.

But the focus is on her music now, of which her husband is very supportive.

The duo, married for a year-and-a-half, make it a point not to perform together in shows.

One reason is the complications they have seen with other musician couples. Another reason is that they have very different styles of music.

They also have different aspirations.

“He’s aiming for the cover of Rolling Stone – I’d be happy just to be featured in a smaller magazine,” she said.

Saturday marks the release of her debut album, “Liar and the Thief.”

Guest artists accompanying the Prophette will be Daniel Rickard on keys, who also co-produced and mixed for the album, and drummer Jeremy Wheatley.

Kapousouz will sing and play violin, guitar, glockenspiel and accordion. And of course there will be some looping pedal action.

The show will have two other acts, Barbez, an Eastern European influenced band, and Liz Durrett who will also release an album Saturday.