Good Luck Emily Ann Roberts
Emily has a passion for classic
country and bluegrass and has wanted to pursue music since picking up a guitar
at age 13. She and her grandmother are the only ones in her family who sing and
her greatest memories are when they would sing old hymns together. After her
grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Emily started taking music very
seriously. For the past three years, she has been playing steadily around
Knoxville, performing regularly at a local restaurant and busking on the side.
She feels that today's country has lost some of its soul and is hoping to
introduce classic country to a new generation.
Emily
Ann Roberts was 11
years old when she fell in love with a guitar. That was only five years ago,
and now the sweet teen from Knoxville, Tennessee is auditioning on Season 9 of The Voice. “I took guitar lessons for about six months, but
at the beginning of my seventh grade year, my teacher wanted to teach me
classical and jazz, but I was not feeling it,” Roberts admitted to her hometown
paper, The
Daily Times. She ended up teaching herself how to play
bluegrass.
In the seventh grade she
won a school talent contest. That’s when she knew she wanted to become a professional
performer. Her
sound is described as “a combination of bluegrass and classic country inspired
by Patty
Loveless, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and LeAnn Rimes.” But Roberts says her favorite band is The
Dixie Chicks. The Voice airs
Mondays and Tuesdays at 8pm on NBC.
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