Emmy d'Arc -

Forget the polished pop girls, Emmy d’Arc is of a different caliber. While her peers were still playing with dolls, Emmy was singing the Playstation game Singstar to pieces and claiming her first guitar. Her mission was already clear back then: get on stage. Not to please, but to overpower. A fifteen-year crusade along more than 450 stages followed. From sweaty concert clubs to the hallowed ground of Pukkelpop, Gent Jazz and Rock Werchter. She won hearts in the opening acts for greats like Sting, John Cale and Amy Macdonald. Whoever sees Wie Emmy live, does not see an act, but sees a young veteran without a shred of stage fright. An artist who only truly breathes when the lights go on. Raw. Intimate. Unstoppable. With her debut album ‘Braving Fears’ under her arm, Emmy d’Arc is ready to play the international card. Her sound? A hybrid of intimate singer-songwriter pop and glowing power rock that begs for an arena. Armed with a guitar, a piano, a loop station and a voice that can soothe like a bandage and hit like a sledgehammer, she creates a wall of sound all by herself that many bands would be jealous of. Singing is the soul speaking.