Emmeline

If you didn’t know any better, it might seem as though Emmeline was destined to end up here, directing the relentless rush hour traffic of her interior world through a cavalcade of beats that glide with the improbable velocity of Sherman tanks. Since making London her permanent home, following a childhood in bucolic West Yorkshire, her opening brace of EPs, Satellite Navigation System (2022) and Small-Town Girls and Soft Summer Nights (2023) – both produced by Fraser T Smith (Dave, Stormzy) – saw her featured in The Guardian’s One to Watch section and being championed by Mike Skinner, who invited her to open for The Streets in 2023. Emmeline's unique blend of spoken word and alternative hip-hop has marked her as one of East London's rising poetic souls. Making music that traverses both speech, song, and that mystical in-between, she has made her name for herself on the UK's performance poetry circuit as well as at underground cyphers and beat showcases. She is also the host and founder of an upcoming women in music showcase ESS SESSIONS. This spring she headed to Austin, Texas to play SXSW for KCRW, The Line of Best Fit, British Music Embassy, BMI, Private Hip-Hop Podcast and Space Agency.