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Granddaughter of a trucker and a coal miner, Emily Zuzik
hails from Southwestern Pennsylvania. She gave her first
public performance singing Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" to her
fifth grade religion class in Catholic school. By eighth
grade, she was performing original work in front of her
school. From this encouragement, she began composing
original songs and performing publicly in high school and
college. And the rest, as we say, is history...
In
September 2006, Emily released her second album, You Had Me
At Goodbye, produced with Joshua Kessler at Bushwick Studio
(The Bravery, Justin Tracy) and mastered by Scott Hull
(Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Spacehog). The record features a
band consisting of Keith Carlock (James Taylor, Sting,
Steely Dan) on drums, Tim Lefebvre (Chris Botti, Jamie
Cullum, James Taylor) on bass and Dan Mintseris (Marianne
Faithfull) on piano and keyboards.
Two CD
Release Parties to packed rooms in September 2006--Thurs.
Sept. 7th at NYC's rock haven Piano's and Friday, Sept. 15th
at San Francisco's indie-rock club, The Make-Out Room,
cemented Emily's place in the rock scene. Both events
received praise and essential preview listings in The
Village Voice and San Francisco Chronicle, respectively. She
regularly tours around the UK, with plans to hop over to the
continent in the next year.
A proud
Epiphone Guitars endorsed artist and 2005 calendar girl,
Emily released her debut solo album, The Way it's Got to Be,
in February 2003, which received praises from NYC's The
Village Voice and Time Out, as well as Performing Songwriter
Magazine's Top DIY Picks, November 2003. Emily's song
"That's the Way" was a semi-finalist in the JANE Magazine
Readers compliation in 2004, and also appeared as one of IGN
for Men's "Babe of the Day".
Emily's
songs have been added to KCRW's music library as well as the
Clear Channel NEW charts, and featured on Alice Artist
Spotlight on 97.3 FM in San Francisco, KUSF's "Diva Radio"
90.3 FM San Francisco, KOOP's "Soul Talk Radio with Chuck
Freeman," and KUT's "Femme FM." The video for her song "Try
a New Line on Me" airs regularly on the Austin Music Network
and aired nationally on the Trio Network to over 18 million
households.
She has
performed on bills with such esteemed performers as an
alias-bearing Norah Jones, The Silos (Bloodshot Records),
Leslie Mendelson (RYKO), Jon Dee Graham (New West Records),
Jolie Holland (ANTI) and 80s teen pop icon Tiffany.
Emily
has performed both solo and with many bands including LES
supergroup AKI is the Glue, acoustic roots rockers Sexfresh,
Babes with Beats, the Burning Man phenomenon Funkmobile, 70s
classic rock tribute group Southern Frost and San Francisco
WAMMIE-awarded Shitty Shitty Band Band. Additionally, she
has contributed backing vocals for Marwood, Ari Hest, RYKO
recording artist Leslie Mendelson, Amiel Leshnik, Will
Hawkins, Tom Glynn and UK-based DOJO Studios artists Sizzlax
and Joe the Magician. She plays regularly in the NYC and
London scene and tours annually.
Emily
is also a co-conspirator in the electronica project, mz.,
with bassist/producer Tim LeFebvre; cowriter with
Benji Rogers of Marwood; featured singer and cowriter with
Sizzlax of London's Dojo Studios; and singer with AKI is the
Glue.
You can
also see Emily on the cover of Penguin Paperback's reissue
of James Bond's Thunderball as the spear-gun toting Bond
girl.
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