Who Is…Emily Wells

By Laura Studarus, eMusic Contributor

A sweet-voiced chanteuse with a penchant for the Notorious B.I.G. and a record collection full of Nina Simone, there's no easy way to pigeonhole Emily Wells. Tracing the entomology of her music's toy pianos, bells, guitars and looped violins would be a Herculean task — with roots in her high school infatuation with jazz, hip-hop and her parents well-trod record collections. Unafraid of reinvention, Wells's third full-length Mama contains hints of her folk-friendly debut Beautiful Sleepyhead… more »