Emmy Jones is a singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from a small high-desert town (Palmdale) an hour north of Los Angeles, California. From age 5 and on, she was making her own musicals (that she forced her little bro to participate in—always as the same mouse character) with soundtracks and beats she would program on her big brother’s Yamaha keyboard. From there, she sang in every talent show and project she could, until she realized she had to reach beyond the scope of her surroundings to follow her dreams. Being from a desert town where little opportunity exists for music, she prepared in her years of middle school to audition for the public arts high school, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Miraculously, she nailed the auditions and was granted permission to attend the free-of-cost, intensive school for both regular high school and music studies including musical theater, choral music, music theory, music technology, and gospel choir. She applied herself every day and channeled her songwriting into producing her own songs, designing, producing, and mixing it all herself with sounds synthesis, recording, and performing her pieces live with the software Ableton Live. These opportunities gave Emmy’s passion a life she would never have imagined from her small desert town, so it was worth the daily routine of waking up at 4am, getting on a train for 2.5 hours, arriving in LA, taking a bus, and walking to campus every morning, going to high school, and repeating the process to come back and arrive home at 7pm every day. She was more than willing to endure the daily grind (especially with the love of her mom, family, teachers, and friends), even though sometimes she would get on the cold train and just sleep, other times she did homework, sang with the passengers that she befriended and made beats on the train with her laptop and synths that she would lug around in a suitcase full of textbooks and a lunchbox every day to school and back. As a nature and science lover, Emmy has lived abroad for 5 years on and off in Costa Rica with her job teaching English, volunteering with sea turtle conservation, and making music and singing with artists in a few different Latin American countries. This has shaped her in many ways, making her a bilingual—now learning Portuguese with friends and the app Duolingo. San Diego is home for now where she has taught little kids music, completed her Bachelor’s in Spanish (grammar, history, and culture of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula) tutors Spanish, and surfs some waves when she can. She is currently making new music and performing solo as well as with local artists. Although COVID-19 has been a wrench for music, Emmy has busked and gigged with friends on the streets, in parks, on the beach, and sidewalks to continue growing and becoming stronger in her heart. Music is what helps her understand life and all of its challenges and beauty, and it is her only wish that she may share that with the world as well.