Emily Dukes is a singer songwriter, film composer and violinist. Born in Milano (Italy) she was exposed to music very early by her parents. At 4 she started taking piano lessons and shortly after, at 6 years old she started playing violin. She soon realized she wanted to be a professional musician when at 8, after starting a composition class she discovered her greatest passion: songwriting. 

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At 10 she got accepted into the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan for violin and viola, where she consequently studied for 9 years. During her teenage years, inspired by her love for The Beatles and folk songwriters she also started to teach herself guitar. In between orchestra rehearsals and concert hall recitals she started developing her sound and in 2010, after participating at the Berklee Umbria Jazz Clinics in Perugia she got her first Berklee 5 week program scholarship for voice. After a few experiences at the Berklee College Of Music summer program, in 2015 she was finally old enough to audition for the undergraduate program where she got accepted for violin with a scholarship that allowed her to get a degree in Film Scoring. Right before going to college Emily got called to audition for the 8th edition of X Factor Italia with Mika, Fedez and Morgan as judges and got to the Chair Challenge which allowed her to perform at the Forum di Assago in Milan. 

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During her 4 years at Berklee she got to perform in every major venue in Boston with artists such as Jacob Collier, Wang Leehom and MARO. Between 2015 and 2020 she took part in more than 300 recording sessions as a violinist, vocalist and composer. She graduated in 2019 and shortly after she moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a performer, music teacher and intern assistant at Warner Bros for film and tv composer Trevor Morris (Vikings, Olympus Has Fallen, Vikings: Valhalla). In December 2019 she performed at the Discos Diablito Festival in Mexico City with her band. In 2020 she released her first single “Call Me By Your Name”, produced by Reunionese producer Matheo Techer. At the end of the same year she relocated in Milan where she released her second single “Sober”, produced by Australian producer Jim Alxndr. In 2021 she started working for sync companies such as Marmoset, Closer Music and Madden Flow Entertainment alongside French producer Noé Zagroun, with whom she’s been collaborating and writing with for her current musical project. Their latest single “Paradise” came out on January 14th 2022. Emily was one of the finalists of Radio Deejay OnStage in August 2021. Since then she’s been managed by Umberto Labozzetta and Eleonora Rancati. In March 2022 she relocated to Paris where she’s currently working on her upcoming music.