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Born in the small fishing town of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1981, Emily Peasgood is the oldest of four children.

She grew up surrounded by music, dance, drama and art in a family that have always supported the Arts in all its forms, and her own instrumental skills blossomed at the age of seven when she started to play the piano. Flute, guitar and drums followed later, though it was her remarkable singing voice that brought most plaudits through a string of trophies and awards at festivals and competitions. Singing quickly became her first instrument along with specialising in the flute and piano, and Emily started working as a music teacher at the age of 14.

Initially classically trained, at age 16 Emily's tastes turned to folk music. Accompanying herself on guitar, she was now working through at agent and enjoyed many opportunities to perform at local clubs, restaurants and hotels throughout the east coast holiday resort circuit and folk scene.

Emily was accepted to City University, London at the age of 19 to study music in a joint course that saw her training in singing at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her university speciality was in composition and ethnomusicology, with an interest in African drumming and Tabla as main influences. As she broadened her horizons to encompass world music, she discovered an affinity for blues, jazz and soul.

During her second year of University, Emily established a teaching business and privately taught 30 students whilst coaching vocal technique and performance skills at the Italia Conti Theatre School. She also began a professional association with the guitarist Derek Pang in a folk/roots duo that saw her perform live on BBC Radio 1. During this period, she began working with various songwriters and published 3 songs, two of which were released.

Upon graduating with honours, Emily continued to expand her musical experiences and joined a World Music project, Bush Taxi, with Cuban and African Roots influences as a singer/flautist, lyricist and hand percussionist. This developed further interests in Latino and Soul music, which led to her association with Julian Jackson in late 2004 to form a Jazz quartet under the name of Acustica

Emily has since formed a funk band under the name of Abnormally Funky in which she sings, and she has recently started an original funk/soul based project, which will be recorded for release as an album in late 2005.

Latterly, Emily is becoming more established on the London Jazz scene and has recently sang with the Richie Howard Quartet, TJ Johnson Blues Band as a singer/pianist at the Spice of Life and in May 2005, with Jamie Cullum, Ben Cullum and Julian Jackson.

Future projects include planning to complete the Jazz/Folk Fusion project she began in 2003 and plans to start a Latino/Cuban band.

June 2005.