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Music career

On 6 June 2011, Emery released her debut EP titled ''An Introduction to Roxanne Emery'' on LATE Records. It charted at number 54 on

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. On 6 September 2011, an acoustic recording of her original song "LATE" was uploaded to

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. Within hours the video went viral, and became the No. 1 – Top Favorited and Rated video in the UK, and No. 3 Top Favorited globally. In December 2011, her YouTube success continued when she uploaded her performance of

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' "

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o" at The Royal Festival Hall, the video received over 100,000 hits in its first week. On 15 April 2012, Emery released her second EP, entitled ''Turn Back'', on LATE Records. It charted at number 17 on the iTunes chart. On 2 August 2012, Emery released her third EP entitled ''Live in London'' on LATE Records, which features live performances London's

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. The EP charted in the Top 10 iTunes singer-songwriter chart and Top 20 overall. On 5 November 2014, Emery released her album ''For Weddings and a Funeral''.

Touring

Emery played eight dates on the "Northern Lights" world tour in 2011 with her brother. Venues included The House of Blues (Chicago), Music Box (LA), and Space (Ibiza). In November 2011, Emery went on a 19 date tour of the UK supporting

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, which included playing at The Royal Festival Hall, London. Following public reaction to her performances, she was then invited to support

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on his 23-date UK tour in March 2012, which included dates at Dublin Olympia,

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and London's Hammersmith Apollo. On 17 April 2012, Emery performed at

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for her début headline show. When tickets went on sale, the show sold out within 40 minutes. On 26 October 2012, Emery performed at London's

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for her second headline. Again, the show sold out within hours.

Music used on television

Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. "All That I Am" was chosen to feature as the closing track in the season finale of

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's hit show ''

'' which aired in the US September 2011. "Real" was used in

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's ''

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'' in November 2011. "Turn Back" was featured in MTV's hit show, ''

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'', which aired in the US in December 2011. "Just Add Love" was featured in MTV's ''

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'' in January 2012. "Don't" was featured in

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's ''Kim's Fairytale Wedding'' in August 2012. "Tug of War" was featured in ABC's hit show ''

''. The episode aired on 15 January 2013. "Walk Through Fire" from her second EP was featured on the soundtrack to a new indie film set for release later in 2013.

Dance music

She is the sister of international DJ and producer

. Her vocals feature on the club anthem "A Day That Fades" by chart topping dance act

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. The track received support from

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and was played on

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. The track also received support and radio play from

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as well as being included on

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's ''Ibiza Annual''. Emery also co-wrote a track with and featured on brother Gareth Emery's début artist album, ''Northern Lights'', which charted at Number 1 on the US iTunes Dance Chart. Another collaboration is with Luke Bond for the track "On Fire"; it was premièred by Gareth Emery at Governor's Island and was released in early 2014. In 2014, she again collaborated with Gareth Emery on the song "Soldier", on the album ''

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''. In December 2014, Emery collaborated with the star DJ

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, and the result was called "Shelter"; in the beginning of 2015, Emery teamed up with trance trio Easton and released the track "Healing Rain". The

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remix of this single reached the Beatport Nr. 1 trance chart and got featured on Armin van Buuren mix-compilation ''A State of Trance Yearmix 2015''. Emery has since then worked on tracks with globally renowned DJs/producers. In 2018, Emery brought up a new trance act "HØLY WATERS" together with Ciaran McAuley. On 17 August 2018, HØLY WATERS released their first single "Amsterdam". In December 2018, Emery was present two times in the

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2018 Top 50 Special, with "

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& Roxanne Emery: A Thousand Seas" at number 48 and "Craig Connelly feat. Roxanne Emery: This Life" at number 17. Both tracks were used in Armin van Buuren's ''A State of Trance Year Mix 2018'' Roxanne also ran her own label Late Records, which managed other independent artists.

Songwriting

Roxanne co-wrote "

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" for DJ

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featuring

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, which went platinum in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. The track has totalled 400 million streams. Other writing credits include the

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A-listed " Feel My Needs" by Weiss,

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’s "

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" and

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's "Wildlife". Her releases have amassed over half a billion streams to date.

RØRY

Since 2019, she has been writing and producing material under the name RØRY, writing and collaborating with producers such as AMIDY,

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, MÖWE,

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, Nurko, MitiS, Jason Ross,

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and William Black.

Personal life

She grew up in Southampton. She lost her mother to cancer when she was 22 years old. Her record label, LATE Records, is named after her mother, Linda Angela Teresa Emery. She is the younger sister of

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producer/DJ

. She runs a Tiktok focussing on living with ADHD together with her partner.

Discography

Albums

* ''An Introduction to Roxanne Emery'' (2011) * ''Turn Back'' (2012) * ''Live in London'' (2012) * ''For Weddings and a Funeral'' (2014)

EPs

* "Good Die Young" (2022) (as RØRY)

Singles (as lead artist)

* "f*ck fame" (2021) * "Psychological War" (2021) * "My Chemical Romance" (2021) * "Uncomplicated" (2021) * "Kill the Girl" (2022) * "My Funeral Song" with Loveless (2022) * "Baby Vendetta" (2022) * "Family Tree" (2022) * "December Hurts" (2022)

Singles (as featured artist)

* "Shelter" –

featuring Roxanne Emery (2014) * "Safe in the Sky" – Lee Osborne featuring Roxanne Emery (2014) * "On Fire" – Luke Bond featuring Roxanne Emery (2014) * "Summer Air" – Lema and Shafer featuring Roxanne Emery (2015) * "Shine" –

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featuring Roxanne Emery SOE(2015) * "Where You Hide" – ReOrder and Lee Osborne with Roxanne Emery (2015) * "Healing Rain" – Easton featuring Roxanne Emery (2015) * "Nowhere to Be Found" – Fabio XB and Liuck featuring Roxanne Emery (2016) * "Lullaby" – Roman Messer featuring Roxanne Emery uanda Music(2017) * "This Life" – Craig Connelly featuring Roxanne Emery ho's Afraid Of 138?!(2018) * "A Thousand Seas" –

and Roxanne Emery (2018) * "Neon Dreams" – Joel Hirsch and Roxanne Emery (2018) * "Under the Light" – Chris Schweizer featuring Roxanne Emery ho's Afraid Of 138?!(2018) * "Anything" -

feat. RØRY (2018) * "Wannabe" – Jonasu feat. Roxanne Emery (uncredited) (2019) * "Dancing in the Rain" – Futurecode and Roxanne Emery (2019) * "Lost & Found" – Roman Messer and Roxanne Emery uanda Music(2019) * "if i ain't got u" - MÖWE feat. RØRY (2019) * "GOOD:BAD/CLOUD 9" - CAZETTE and RØRY (2019) * "More Than Words" - Culture Code feat. RØRY (2019) * "Riptide" - Trivecta & Amidy feat. RØRY (2019) * "Built To Last" - Feki feat. RØRY

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(2019) * "Drown The Sky" - William Black feat. RØRY

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feat. RØRY (2020) * "Better Off Lonely" - Nurko feat. RØRY (2020) * "Embers" - Adip Kiyoi & Roxanne Emery (2020) * "Say My Name (Tonight)" - Sevenn & Moonshine (2020) * "Aurora" -

and RØRY (2020) * "Gold" - W&W feat. RØRY (2020) * "Try" - MitiS feat. RØRY (2021) * "Ghost In The Machine" - Trivecta feat. RØRY (2021) * "Wonderland" - Axel Johansson feat. RØRY (2021) * "The Love Songs" -

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and RØRY (2021) * "Walk On Water (Love Is Gone Part II)" -

feat. RØRY and Dylan Matthew (2022) * "Mortal" - Axel Johansson (2022)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emery, Roxanne 1984 births Living people Musicians from Southampton Musicians from London Alumni of the University of Warwick