Emilie & Ogden is the former stage name of Canadian musician Emilie Kahn. In 2019, Kahn ceased performing under the name Emilie & Ogden and began performing as Emilie Kahn.

Early life

Kahn was born and raised in

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. She began writing songs on the piano and guitar at age 14. Kahn originally played the flute and enrolled in CÉGEP to study classical music. After seeing a harpist, Sarah Pagé, accompanying the choir she was performing with at Vanier College, she began taking private harp lessons.

Career

Kahn's Lyon & Healy-made lever harp is from the Ogden range, hence the name Emilie & Ogden. Emilie & Ogden released a mini-album in 2013. In June 2015, Emilie & Ogden was signed to Secret City Records. In July 2015, their stripped-down harp cover of

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" went viral. The video of the cover was re-tweeted by Swift herself and garnered over 300,000 views. Secret City released Emilie & Ogden's debut record, ''10,000'', later that year. In 2019, Kahn began releasing music as Emilie Kahn. Explaining the change, she told the ''

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'', "I was kind of tired of being the harp girl." Her first album under the new name was 2019's ''Outro''. Her album ''Maybe'' was released on Secret City Records in 2023.

Discography

* ''10,000'' (2015) * ''Outro'' (2019 - as Emilie Kahn) * ''Maybe'' (2023 - as Emilie Kahn)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emilie and Ogden Canadian women singer-songwriters Canadian indie pop musicians Canadian folk musicians Canadian harpists Living people Singers from Montreal Vanier College alumni 21st-century Canadian women singers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters Canadian women folk musicians