Over the past year, her global presence has accelerated rapidly through extensive international touring with her trio, performing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Europe, and the UK. She is a regular at iconic venues including Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, Birdland in New York, Blue Note Milano, and Duc des Lombards in Paris, where additional dates are frequently added due to demand.

Growing up in a family of jazz musicians, it was perhaps inevitable that Emma would fall in love with this joyous, swinging music. Her greatest influence was her grandfather, an East End trombonist who performed with Sammy Davis Jr., Oscar Peterson, Barbra Streisand, and Frank Sinatra. Emma says, “He never skipped a day’s practice. He taught me that you’re only as good as your last performance. I’ve adopted my Grandad’s work ethic, wide-eyed adoration for the music, deep gratitude for the life it gives me, and limitless ambition.”

Emma’s accolades include the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Vocalist of the Year, Jazz Act of the Year at the Jools Holland Boisdale Music Awards, the Worshipful Company of Musicians Medal, and First Runner-Up at the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Alongside her solo career, she has enjoyed the widespread success of The Puppini Sisters and spent four years as a broadcaster on BBC Radio 3.

Her latest album, Bitter Orange, released via US label La Reserve, where she is the first UK artist to join the roster, has received widespread critical acclaim and multi-million streams, pairing modern emotional honesty with a sound rooted in yesterday.