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Emmy the Great

October 2020

  • Emmy the Great.

    Emmy the Great: April / 月音 review – a quest for belonging

    The artist’s lush fourth album, written between New York and Hong Kong, is a stirring exploration of different homes

September 2020

  • Emmy the Great Exclusive press image for the Observer New Review

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Emmy the Great: 'Live music's going to be weird, but it also might be cathartic'

    The singer-songwriter on how Hong Kong inspired her new album and the first thing she’ll do when we’re Covid-free

December 2019

  • George Michael promoting Wham!’s 1984 single Last Christmas.

    Ranked
    The 50 greatest Christmas songs – ranked!

    From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers

November 2019

  • Emma-Lee Moss in Hong Kong 2019

    'Parenting here means checking the ingredients of teargas': my return to Hong Kong

    Emma-Lee Moss, who makes music as Emmy the Great, on life, new motherhood and her divided birthplace

October 2019

  • Emmy the Great.

    'I’d rather forget a guitar than the breast pump': Emmy the Great on touring with a baby

    For Parents and Carers in Performing Arts, the indie musician kept a diary of her first gigs with a newborn daughter in tow, full of breast milk, sleep deprivation and snatched joys

May 2019

  • Stalebread Scottie and His Gang perform on the corners of Royal and Toulouse streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

    Extreme cities
    Which is the world's most musical city?

    Is it a metropolis like London or a New York – or a smaller city where music is the focus?

October 2017

  • The Big Moon.

    How can women make it in the music industry? Insiders share their tips

  • Laura Marling

    Live music acts are mostly male-only. What's holding women back?

June 2017

  • Comedian Nish Kumar, musician Emmy the Great, designer Samuel Ross and writer Bridget Minamore.

    Tips for students
    How to crack the arts as a BME student: 'don't despair if your path isn't obvious'

    Nish Kumar, Emmy the Great, Samuel Ross and Bridget Minamore have all gone on from university to have successful careers in the arts. They explain how they broke into an industry where BME people are significantly underrepresented

December 2016

  • Author Sarah Perry, who is nominated for the Costa novel of the year award, to be announced 3 January.

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Books of the year, with Sarah Perry and Francis Spufford - podcast

    Costa contenders The Essex Serpent and Golden Hill bring historical fiction to the fore as we predict the books that will last from 2016

November 2016

  • Emmy the Great (Emma-Lee Moss), is a London based singer-somgwriter and journalist. She has released two albums, 'First Love' and 'Virtue'. Emmy the Great is photographed with a Jamstik in North London , England.

    Emmy the Great joins music exchange programme in China

  • Bob Dylan

    Beyond Bob Dylan: authors, poets and musicians pick their favourite songwriter

May 2016

  • Emmy the Great

    Emmy the Great: 'It’s time to retire English as pop’s lingua franca'

    The Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter Emmy the Great asks why more and more musicians, from Gwenno Saunders to Maria Usbeck, are turning to their first languages for their lyrics

March 2016

  • emmy the great portrait

    Emmy the Great: Second Love review – a benchmark smashed

  • Small is beautiful: the Green Man festival in 2011.

    What’s your fantasy festival?

February 2016

  • The writer David Foster Wallace

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Reading Infinite Jest 20 years on – books podcast

    Twenty years after David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus was first published it continues to delight and astonish. We discuss the unending pleasures of Infinite Jest

January 2016

  • A fresco showing Calliope, muse of epic poetry

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Poetry, music and identity with Sarah Howe, Emmy the Great and Solomon OB – books podcast

    The winners of the TS Eliot prize and the National poetry slam explore the territory between lyric and music with singer-songwriter Emmy the Great

June 2015

  • Emma-Lee Moss as a child in Hong Kong

    Books blog
    Emma-Lee Moss: How books took me on a journey back to China

    As a child growing up in Hong Kong, Emma-Lee Moss wanted nothing to do with her Asian heritage. Then books began to return her to herself

April 2015

  • UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 01:  (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of Joni MITCHELL; Joni Mitchell, posed, with zither  (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns)

    Why are only women described as ‘confessional’ singer-songwriters?

    The term is loaded with notions of guilt and remorse – and it is rarely ever used about men

March 2015

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    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography: February 2015

    This month’s showcase of photography commissioned by the Observer features portraits of Sam Smith, Russell Tovey (and Rocky the bulldog), Bill Nighy, Don Letts and Karl Ove Knausgaard.
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