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Meet Emma Stevens…

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 Emma Nadine Stevens (born 4 May 1986) is an English singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Guildford, United
Kingdom. She achieved mainstream success with her single Riptide from her first full length album Enchanted, which was featured as itunes Single of the Week in October 2013 and achieved in excess of
150,000 downloads. She describes her music as "sparkly folk pop”
 She met long-time manager Bob James and started collaborating with different writers across multiple genres. Work included writing and performing on Britains got talent finalist Andrew Muir's debut album for which she wrote the lyrics to Can't Say That It's Over in 2009. Soon after,  It was during songwriting sessions in Los Angeles she began to seriously consider a future solo career.
 Other collaborations have included Sharon vaughn, Eric Shermehorn,
Andy Goldmark, Wayne Rodriguez, Mimoza Blinsson, Adam Kagan, Will
Simms, Russ Ballard and John Beck.
 In 2011, she toured with British rock band The Kooks and Feeder regularly performing on stage in front of crowds of 20,000 people.

Solo Career
 decided that the first album would be released initially as a series of four
EPs. Placed together, the four pieces form the entire cover of the full album, Enchanted
 In August 2012, Emma was picked up by the BBC Introducing series for new and unsigned artists and on 19 August 2012 she performed four songs live on air.
 The first single, A Place Called You, was released on 28 October 2012 and received its first national airplay on BBC radio 2's Weekend Wogan show on 2 September 2012
 In January 2013, Emma collaborated with English folk-rock singersongwriter Passenger, which resulted in a song I'll Be Your Man
 Recording work on the debut album was completed on 9 September 2013
 After the album had been completed, rather than sign to a major label,
Emma
decided to self-release Enchanted and a deal with label services

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