Emi Maria
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.
Biography
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.
Podcasts:
EMI MARIA
ALBUMS
- CONTRAST released: 2010
