Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile alto, San Francisco folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White offers complex tales of melancholy and isolation. While comparisons to contemporaries like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, Emily's music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday. Fooling around with music since pre-school, Emily started on piano around the same time she learned to read, eventually picking up the guitar during her college days at UC Santa Cruz. While doing stints in an array of college punk and metal bands, she began writing her own songs and fronted her own group, the Diamond Star Halos.
After graduation Emily picked up and moved to Bordeaux, where she performed with a bevy of independent French artists, further honing her songwriting skills. Upon returning stateside, she moved to SF and began recording 4-track demos, formulating the songs that would ultimately become her debut album, Dark Undercoat.
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