Emmerald Bio

Emmerald is contributing writer at dancemusic.about.com where she covers all things good and soulful. Genre-wise, "good and soulful" includes deep house, broken beat, afro-beat, 70s and 80s R-n-B, jazz, funk, and many things in between. She has also written articles for Straight No Chaser magazine and XLR8R magazine. She is a former DJ at WRVU-FM in Nashville, Tennessee. She now resides in Atlanta, Georgia where she spins weekly at Javaology's "Let Them Eat Cake". She keeps her ties to Nashville close spinning occasionally with her old crew, the Elevator Music Collective at the Audity Central monthly. Whatever spare time she can muster is spent practicing yoga, cooking, shopping at Whole Foods, searching for peace within and cheap gas.

Her current favourite albums and singles are:

bakura -- reach the sky LP (village-Japan)
rufus & chaka khan -- magic in your eyes
jneiro jarel -- three piece puzzle LP (kindred spirits)
alex harrison -- rush hour (divine)
jiva -- sun and moon LP
colonel red -- blak eye blue (people)
breakthrough -- breakthrough LP (ki/oon)
duke pearson -- xibaba
steve spacek -- space shift LP (soundincolor)
justone -- lovemusic LP (inpartmaint)
norman connors -- slewfoot LP (buddha)
marz and ianeq -- unreal (neroli)
povo -- we are povo LP (raw fusion)
eddy meets yannah -- just like LP (compost)
amerie -- one thing (sony)
alex harrison -- rush hour (divine)
boxsaga f. lyric l -- back inside (nonstop)
recloose f. te manuhiri -- landed (peacefrog)
jazzanova -- blue note trip
jneiro jarel -- three piece puzzle