Emma-Lee

Emma-Lee, is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter and photographer from Toronto, Ontario. She is considered a mezzo-soprano and is a self-taught vocalist. She has written hit songs for other artists in both the pop and country genres.

Early life Emma-Lee was born in Toronto and raised in Markham, Ontario. She started playing guitar at age 14 and credits her father for teaching her. She soon began writing her own songs.

Published works Albums Never Just a Dream She released her debut album Never Just a Dream in 2008 to critical acclaim from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. The album was picked up by Bumstead Records and re-released on March 3, 2009. Her vocal style is frequently compared to k.d. lang, Norah Jones and Feist. No Depression magazine described Never Just a Dream as "an album so full of ideas and potential that it is hard to know how to properly frame a description of its contents. It is a collection of songs that is far more than the sum of its influences" and dubbed her "the voice to remember from 2009."

In November 2016 she released her first Christmas recording "It Won't Be Christmas" (by songwriters Karen Kosowski & Julie Crochetière) to radio and iTunes.

Backseat Heroine On February 7, 2012, she released her long-awaited second album Backseat Heroine, co-produced by Emma-Lee, Karen Kosowski and Marc Rogers. The album features collaborations with Nicole Atkins, Jill Barber and Luke Doucet. Most of the album was tracked at The Chalet, a studio near Uxbridge, Ontario. Backseat Heroine blends multiple musical genres including pop, country, soul and rock. According to her online biography, "Emma-Lee's goal was to make a record that lived and breathed in its own world and could cross genres while still being a soundscape that was complete from start to finish."

Discography

Albums 2009: Never Just a Dream (Bumstead Records) 2012: Backseat Heroine (eOne Music Canada) 2017: Fantasies: Volume 1 (Special Agent) 2013, her album Backseat Heroine won "Best Adult Contemporary Album" and the video for "Shadow of a Ghost" was nominated for "Best Short Form Music Video" for the 12th annual Independent Music Awards. 2013, her album Backseat Heroine won the 12th annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop Fan Choice Award for "Best Adult Contemporary Album" and the video for "Shadow of a Ghost" won the Independent Music Awards Vox Pop Fan Choice Award for "Best Short Form Music Video." 2013, won for best female vocalist in NOW Magazine's best of Toronto feature. 2010, Emma-Lee's song "Until We Meet Again" from the album Never Just a Dream won in the 9th annual Independent Music Awards as "best love song".

Film/TV placements "Boomerang" in Syfy's Wynonna Earp "All The Way" in CBC's Hello Goodbye "Flow" in Degrassi: The Next Generation, CBC's The Border and Bomb Girls "Pick Me Up, Dust Me Off" in CBC's Heartland - performed by Carleton Stone "Never Just a Dream" in CBC's 18 to Life and Alias "That Sinking Feeling" in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? "Shot In The Dark" in HBO's Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Lifetime's Dance Moms, promotional ad for FX's Wilfred, 2014 feature film The Scarehouse "I Could Live With Dying Tonight" in NBC's Saving Hope and MTV's Teen Wolf "Shadow Of a Ghost" in Degrassi: The Next Generation "Figure It Out" in Beauty & the Beast "It Won't Be Christmas 'Til You're Here" in CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles - performed by Julie Crochetière

Collaborations

sings backing vocals on the album "Let Me Prove It To You" by Steve Strongman (2014) sings backing vocals on the album "Rustbucket" by Sean Pinchin (2013) sings on "I Put a Spell On You" and "Ne Me Quitte Pas" on Jesse Cook's The Blue Guitar Sessions album (2012) sings a duet with country music artist Josh Macumber on his song "Tomorrow" (Josh Macumber Was Here, 2012) sings on "It Was You" by Peter Katz (Still Mind Still, 2012) sings on Jill Barber's song "Took Me By Surprise" (Mischievous Moon, 2011) sings on Rob Szabo's song "Something Like Me" (Rob Szabo, 2011)

Songwriting credits (selected discography)

Title Artist Album Label Confession MacKenzie Porter Nobody's Born with a Broken Heart Big Loud Starts and Ends Brett Kissel The Compass Project Big Star Recordings Bad for Me Tebey The Good Ones Jayward Artist Group What Are You Gonna Tell Her? Mickey Guyton Bridges Universal Music Group Nashville Bridges Home To Me Ross Ellis Single Sony Music Nashville Good Love Shawn Hook Take Me Home Ultra Music I Still See You At Parties Port Cities and Emma-Lee Single Independent/Warner Canada She Drives Me Crazy Brett Kissel Now or Never Warner Music Canada Hummingbird Brett Kissel Now or Never Warner Music Canada Country Thunder The Washboard Union Single Warner Music Canada Memphis T-Shirt Melanie Dyer Single Universal Australia Lit In The Sticks Ryan Langdon Single Hidden Pony Wasted Sam Drysdale Single Warner Music Canada Wild At Heart The Abrams Reminder Warner Music Canada Care Whitney Woerz Single 600 Volt How It's Done Kendra Kay Single Independent Wasted Sam Drysdale Single Warner Music Canada Swerve Samara Yung Single Independent Over Me Michelle Treacy Insane Independent What A Song Should Do Tim Hicks New Tattoo Open Road Recordings So Fresh & Legs Stacey Kay 11 O'Clock Number Independent The Story Leah Daniels The Story LDM Entertainment I Don't Wanna Know Kira Isabella Sides Creator Anthem Brett Kissel We Were That Song Warner Music Canada No Last Call Dan Davidson Found Pony Up & Jim, Jack, Johnnie & Jose Nice Horse A Little Unstable Coalition Entertainment Colours Michelle Treacy Single Sony Music Canada Live On Your Love SATE Red Black & Blue CLK Creative Works Crush Madeline Merlo Free Soul Open Road Recordings I'm So Over Getting Over You Kira Isabella Single Sony Music Canada Salt Water Leah Daniels What It Feels Like Independent A Little Bit Goes A Long Way River Town Saints Single Open Road Recordings Only The Strong Survive Alee Single Wax Records Sawdust Victoria Duffield Accelerate Warner Music Canada Pick Me Up, Dust Me Off Carleton Stone Draws Blood Groundswell Music One More Light Alee This Road Goes Everywhere Independent Cabin Fever & Man Up! Tia Brazda Cabin Fever Rebeluck Records Sheets Carleton Stone Carleton Stone Groundswell Music Fall Apart Sabrina Carpenter Single Independent