Mix the acoustic jazz and vocal style of Astrud Gilberto or Peggy Lee with lyrical personality of Randy Newman or Tom Jobim and you'll get me - a bit of the old with a bit of the new to make something entirely unique. I started concentrating seriously on music when I turned seven and my piano teacher said, "Although Emma is a real sweet girl, her older brother has all the talent." Needless to say, I have been passionate about working on my music ever since. After playing everywhere from beachside coffee shops to the Florida Music Festival (where a reviewer described my gig as one of the "most impressive acts of the night") and playing over in California for a while (a rite of passage for aspiring musicians) I recently released my first album A Reason to Stay Up All Night and look forward to having my songs secure a place in the playlist at wine tastings and candlelit dinners. My most prominent influence is Sting. There is no close second in influences merely because Sting is just my favorite. Always has been. But my love for classic jazz greats- both performers and writers (Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Connick, Jr., George Gershwin, Cole Porter) definitely creates the tone of music. I also love great and unusual songwriters: Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Emily Loizeau, etc. In one friendly review, the writer says, "Her songs, imbued with a swaggering and conscious sexuality, are unmistakably feminine. Even when she's not singing about love and longing, it's still there, clasped between the chords and her warm vocals."