NICOLE EVA EMERY

“Serpentine guitars wrap themselves languidly around throbbing rhythms, atmospheric washes of cymbals and Velvet Underground-style tom-tom pattering. Emery’s keening vocals sometimes recall the icy starkness of Emmylou Harris’ high-lonesome delivery, but they’re layered over hypnotic, droning passages that evoke the spacey jams of the Doors and Mazzy Star.

“Slowly builds its own intoxicating momentum through an accumulation of subtle murmurs and distant echoes. Songs like “Ghosts” and “Down by the Water” sound just like their titles, with soft waves of gentle guitars and keyboards bubbling under spectral melodies that float away in the air like curling smoke.

“The local singer may still be largely unknown, but she’s already worked with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones, who recognize the incandescent power welling up in Emery’s distinctively, delicately sublime phrasing

- LA Weekly

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Management: Falcor at Neverending Story Management

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“You might have seen Nicole Eva Emery around town when she sings backup vocals for the madcap art-folk singer-guitarist Jesca Hoop. ”A fanciful songwriter who surrounds her pastoral melodies with febrile, complex vocal arrangements, who layers everything with ethereal high harmonies, giving Hoop’s music an icily beautiful allure. Emery’s own songs are similarly dreamy but with more of an introspective quietude that slowly builds its own intoxicating momentum through an accumulation of subtle murmurs and distant echoes. Songs like “Ghosts” and “Down by the Water” sound just like their titles, with soft waves of gentle guitars and keyboards bubbling under spectral
melodies that float away in the air like curling smoke. she’s already worked with Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones, who recognize the incandescent power welling up in Emery’s distinctively, delicately sublime phrasing.” - LA Weekly——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

————-Professional Bio

—————————Nicole’s professionalism and unique style have led her to be an in-demand session vocalist and supporting player for folks around the Los Angeles area. She is proficient in various styles, specifically early jazz and folk, with experience singing in several languages.

Nicole has worked with renowned artists including Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones, as well as providing harmonies for Jesca Hoop, Lissie, Robert Francis, and Leslie Stevens and the Badgers. She has performed at Sundance Film Festival, Newport Folk Festival, South by Southwest, and The Great Escape.

Featured on Bob Dylan’s release, “Christmas in the Heart”, her approach to early vocal jazz draws upon elements of swing, cabaret, gypsy, Dixieland, and vaudeville, and was found to be perfectly suited for the Andrews Sisters-esque sound that Dylan desired for his latest project.

She is also featured on Jesca Hoop’s latest release Hunting My Dress released on Vanguard Recordings. —————

From the age of 14, beginning with mandolin lessons to fulfill her dream as a pub session player, to creating a Hollywood Burlesque show, to a seven year run at the legendary McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Nicole was exposed to a variety of musical genres including blues, bluegrass, and ragtime.———-

Ultimately, it was her love of early jazz recordings that led her to pursue this style primarily. As much as she is influenced by the greats like Peggy Lee and Billie Holiday, she has developed singular style all her own. Further influence has come from time spent in a Bulgarian Women’s Choir and an infatuation with the sounds of India and the Middle East.————

She currently performs as a solo artist, and has just become a registered nurse.