Emmaline

GGP Parks

Young new emerging Jazz vocalist bursting on the scene at Duet

LowDown

Emmaline (rhymes with clementine) is a 21-year-old singer and songwriter possessing a smoky,
jazz-infused, genre-fluid voice admirable as much for the range of traditional sounds she draws upon, as
for her startling freshness—fresh, as in new and innovative as well as in attitude and sly humor. Her
songs are bold in statement and soft in feel, her flow supple and precise. She prides herself in being one
who has listened with deep intention to her heroes—Anita O’Day and Billie Holiday, Erykah Badu and
D’Angelo—and has already learned to rise above questions of category with a healthy sense of musical
identity and forethought.
“I consider myself a jazz singer,” Emmaline says. “I have been singing jazz my entire life—I studied it and
I think that there is a place for me in the jazz world. Whether my music is strictly jazz I cannot say and in
fact, would rather not. To me jazz is art, not a set of rules.”
Emmaline’s music speaks for itself: She has headlined venues in Cincinnati (where she received
conservatory training), Chicago (where she now lives) and New York City. She has performed in a wide
range of situations on stage and online—with big bands and orchestras, singing Jessie J’s “Domino” (à la
Billie Holiday) for Postmodern Jukebox—and has amassed a substantial social media following. Her first
official release—the six-song EP “All My Sweetest Dreams”—drops in late September, and given the
confidence and clarity in the music, will certainly turbo-charge the tempo of her career ascendancy.
Her story thus far: Emmaline Campbell hails from Anderson, Indiana—an hour northeast of
Indianapolis—where she grew up in a musical family; her father, Russ, is a jazz pianist, her mother, Julie,
a singer and journalist, and both siblings musicians as well. She credits the lack of distractions in what
was a primarily rural environment for honing her focus early.
“I think that kind of solitude, being out in the country, played a big part in my musical growth. From the
time I was very young, we would sit at home in the evenings and play music or have these listening
parties in our bonus room upstairs—my dad had a record player and the majority of what we listened to
was mainly jazz: big band music and also solo artists like Chet Baker and Bill Evans, and R&B and soul
and more modern things, like Brian McKnight and Lalah Hathaway and Erykah Badu.”
Emmaline began violin lessons at the age of 4 with a local teacher, recalling “I’d always be so nervous
and shy about going to my lessons but when we were actually making music and working on how to
actually play my instrument, it made me really excited and motivated to practice.” She still plays the violin
yet considers her interest in singing as the turning point that led her to her career path.

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