Emi Maria, stylized as EMI MARIA, (born June 9, 1987) is a Japanese Papua New Guinean R&B singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2007 with the EP Between the Music.
Emi Maria was born in 1987 in Papua New Guinea. Her father is Papua New Guinean, while her mother is Japanese. She spent the first five years of her life in Papua New Guinea, before moving to Kobe in Japan.
She first started listening to R&B at 6 due to her sister, listening to such artists as Janet and Michael Jackson, and K-Ci & JoJo. She began writing lyrics in junior high school. By high school, she had started writing music and producing her own tracks. She participated in the MTV Star Tour, and started performing lives in the Kansai area from 2006 onwards. In 2007, she started appearing on many different Japanese urban artists' albums as a guest artist, such as Seeda and MC Moggy.
In 2007, Emi Maria released her first EP, Between the Music on Freest Inc., a label she had created for herself. Her debut single "I Gotta (Summer Kiss)" was picked as the iTunes Japan single of the week in August 2008.
[Chorus:]
I'm right here what you need don't be scared come to me I be waiting patiently for you to come my way
I'll be here faithfully
[Verse 1:]
I can tell by one look in your face lately things haven't be goin your way too bad your going thru the changes
You should just replace him let me rescue you from your pain you to be feelin me
[Chorus:]
I'm right here what you need don't be scared come to me I be waiting patiently for you to come my way
I'll be here faithfully
[Verse 2:]
Working hard putting yourself through school and sometimes you wanna come before school but want confort from a man
Though baby that's the plan I can do all all that and more baby I'm willing to give everthing you ever need yeah baby I'm willing
Baby all you gotta do is call on me I'm tryna give you love that you need to game with
I'm here all you gotta do is look at your face I'm here I'm here listen ma come man maybe I'm here no mystery to her I'm a show you
Mmmmmm what a real man can do I'm here
[Chorus:]
I'm right here what you need don't be scared come to me I be waiting patiently for you to come my way
I'll be here faithfully