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Emma Nadine Stevens (born 4 May 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, based in Guildford, United Kingdom. She achieved mainstream success with her single ''Riptide'' from her first full-length album ''Enchanted'', which was featured as iTunes Single of the Week in October 2013 and achieved in excess of 150,000 downloads. She describes her music as "sparkly folk pop" Emma is currently promoting the deluxe edition of her second studio album, ''Waves'', released in August 2015. ==Early life and education== Born in Guildford in England to parents Toby and Tina Stevens, she has one younger sister, Ellen. Emma grew up in Shalford just outside of Guildford, where she lived until the age of 17. She attended Shalford First School, St Theresa's in Effingham and St Peter's in Merrow where she studied GCSE Music.〔 Emma first started playing guitar at the age of 3 or 4, after watching her mother play Spanish acoustic guitar. Spotting this early talent, her parents sent her to Cello & Piano lessons from the age of 6 and she later joined the Surrey Youth Orchestra. From the age of about 10, Emma had orchestra and piano lessons at Charterhouse and attended stage school at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre〔 in 1999. Her songwriting began aged around 12 or 13 when she took up the guitar properly - "I’d write a lot of melodies on the piano then too. I started writing poetry as well – I got a poem published in a national competition – and I started combining them with melodies".〔 Emma's very first appearance on stage was at the age of 13 at a local venue in Guildford. "I was terrified but I remember loving being on stage and singing my songs as I do now".〔 On her 17th birthday, she was dumped by her then boyfriend - this was later to become the inspiration for the song ''How to Write a Love Song'',〔 which appeared on her first solo EP ''Heart on Hand''. From 2006 to 2007, Emma attended the Academy of Contemporary Music and graduated with a Diploma in Guitar and Contemporary Performance. This is also where she met her guitarist Sam Whiting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Stevens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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