Emily Spiller is an independent, live looping artist.
A hint of Imogen Heap-meets-Zap Mama with a splash of Feist, she blends jazz & blues with layered harmonies over vocal percussion, traveling the globe as a one woman show. Armed with a loop machine, laptop and microphone she creates on stage.
Fresh off the plane from Australia in March 2011, Emily learned she’d been nominated for five Vancouver Island Music awards while on stage at Canadian Music Fest in Toronto. She won “Female Vocalist of the Year” in June, and toured BC until October.
2011′s “Gypsy Pirate Tour” included a showcase at the Vancouver Island Music Business Conference, Komasket Music Festival, The Big Time Out, The Dancing Man Music Festival, Marine Fest, BC Shellfish Festival, Cortes Island Arts & Music Fest, Duncan Music Fest, along with club venues and openings for Australian artist Kim Churchill. Emily Spiller has taken her music through Canada, China, Australia, & New Zealand. She was awarded a FACTOR grant for her latest EP “The Wonderbro Remixes” (2010), and a CIRRA Groundbreaker Grant in 2011. To date, Emily has three self-released EPs, film & software licenses, collaborated on french duo Urihani’s 2009 album, “Music for The Planet”, and a co-written track with David Parfit for US Documentary “From Place to Place”. Recently, Emily was honoured to share the stage with Ash Grunwald in Vancouver. She is writing her 4th record, and will tour in May.