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Emilia Sisco is a jazz-soul-blues singer from Finland, Helsinki. In her music she combines American jazz traditions, as well as modern arrangements of soul-music.
Influenced by singers like Dinah Washington and Sugar Pie Desanto, Emilia's strong, personal vocal and tone strikes directly into the soul and makes you move. She creates a natural swing with her instinctive phraising. When Sisco forgets everything else and lets herself go, she shows the world of entertainment what girls are really made of.
“A real blues mama is on the way!” - Jazzrytmit
The passion for singing for this self-taught singer came from her childhood home where music was always present. From her mothers side Zambia, came the culture of african music and rhythm. The little girl started to interpret the songs she heard and found love towards jazz music. Through that, she got into different genres of roots and performed for the first time in publicity at the age of 15.
Nowadays, Sisco is performing all over Finland and has also been on stage in Denmark with Helge Tallqvist band, in Switzerland and Italy as a guest at Ruf Records Blues Caravan.
She was chosen as the Newcomer of the year 2017 at the Finnish Blues Awards.
With countless feature and backing vocal experience, she has sang backing vocals for ex. international roots reggae artists such as Luciano, Peetah Morgan (Morgan Heritage), Marla Brown (daughter of Dennis Brown), collaborated with scottish blues talent Robbie Hill. And also appeared in Finnish movies Romanssi (romance) and international Finnish film Ikitie (the eternal road). |
