#57 Telekinetic Kiss: Emma-Lee Moss (FKA Emmy The Great) and the Name-Dropping Dreamer

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

"My whole life has been governed by fateful meetings"

Emma-Lee Moss, formerly known as Emmy The Great, is a musician, composer and writer. Emma-Lee was born in Hong Kong to an English father and a Chinese mother, before moving to London at the age of 12. Performing as Emmy the Great, she has released three studio albums. First Love (2009), Virtue (2011) and Second Love (2016).

Currently, Emma-Lee is working on a memoir about Hong Kong, and playing with new sounds and ways of approaching songwriting. She is also offering Song Circle, a safe and joyous space to open up your songwriting process, overcome blocks, and touch in with your artistic identity, open for those at any stage of their songwriting journey. Find more details at www.emmaleemoss.com

You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Instagram @wecanbeweirdos. There, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:07.4	Warning! The following episode contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:12.2	unexplainable experiences, and a mystical kindle.
0:15.9	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:19.8	What if playing these harmonies one day unlocked a portal?
0:23.6	That's how cool they sound, you know, the way that these two notes hit each other and it's like,
0:27.6	and you're just like, surely that's the key. Hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos.
0:58.0	My name is Dan Schreiber. I am coming to you from my home at Roughway by C.
1:03.0	And I've just finished my interview with today's guest. This was a very exciting one for me
1:08.4	because it is someone that I have known my entire life.
1:12.5	It is the artist formerly known as Emmy the Great, Emily Moss.
1:18.3	So Emmy and I grew up in Hong Kong together.
1:20.7	We're incredibly close.
1:22.3	In fact, her mom was the very first person to see me after I was born.
1:27.3	Maybe one or two relatives were there,
1:28.9	but the first sort of friend to come and see me was Blossom Emmy's mom,
1:33.0	who the story goes found me so hideous to look at that she,
1:39.3	and she tells this, like, you know, if I'm at their house at dinner,
1:42.6	and there's just a group of strangers, I don't know, she'll say that.
1:45.2	She'll be like, oh my God, this guy when he was born, he was so ugly that the only thing she could conjure up, she couldn't even lie, couldn't even bring herself to say, wow, he's so beautiful.
1:54.8	The first words she said about me were, oh, how interesting.
1:59.2	That was the description of me as a newborn via Emmy's mom.
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