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Symphonies

ABOUT EMily WEST

Known for her powerhouse voice and dazzling artistry, West captivates an audience with her unique blend of witty charm, ethereal vulnerability, and purposeful conviction. Whether singing about love, loss, or lewdness, she summons emotion with surgical skill, using her prodigious gift as a singer and her innate charisma to convey the entire spectrum of human experience...

Emily West is a singer, songwriter, and top 40 performer who defies categorization. At the age of 18 the Waterloo, Iowa native moved to Nashville and signed with Capitol Records. The release of “Rocks in Your Shoes,” landed in the top 40 on Billboard's Hot Country charts. Her duet with Keith Urban, “Blue Sky,” likewise found a home in the top 40, met with critical praise, and was nominated for the Academy of Country Music Awards’ vocal event of the year in 2008. In an effort to broaden her horizons and fulfill a lifelong dream, West moved to New York city in 2013. It was there that she decided, on a whim, to audition for season 9 of America's Got Talent. The show saw her rise as it's immensely popular runner up. Her cover of Sia's "Chandelier" took her to new heights, as well as performing the live finale with Cyndi Lauper in front of 12 million tv viewers. Following her success on the show, she signed with Sony Masterworks and released her debut album “All For You,” which showcases her wide range and effortless command of various musical idioms.

After touring the country as an opening act for Jay Leno, West went to work on her forthcoming EP "Symphonies", set to be released in the Summer of 2017

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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. @nemsue taped this with her little 'Facebooking fingers' and forgot how musical tension was built back in an age where you had to wait patiently for the big pay off ending in a big saxual explosion. (She started filming again on the next page.) 🎷❤️Thank you for orchestrating this magical night of music @scottmulvahill ✨& thank you @paulsimonofficial #StillCrazyAfterAllTheseYears @tylersummersmusic 🎷🎷🎷🎷

Tawny Kitaen hair, a Calvin Klein Pose, and a Carol Burnette spirit. Happy Wednesday.

Hey @paulsimonofficial 😉 You have a lot of young artists who are enamored by you. And it is an honor to get to sing for @muscornernash @citywinerynsh with all of them. Nashville- If you are young, old, middle aged, it doesn't matter- Paul Simon's music is universally timeless and we are reincarnating it all tonight. See you there! 👞👠👡👢

I do weddings and funerals. Just email me. What a beautiful song and what an exquisite band. Thank you for having me @whiskeywolvesofthewest #SkeeterDavis #endoftheworld 🇺🇸 Thank you @vandarien for the video! 🤳🏽

10 years ago a 🐥chick singer (me) decided to stand in front of a chicken stand 🍗 and pose as a hot serious and sad 20-year old with a bad spray tan back when I was trying to be a country artist on a major label. I stood here 10 years ago, and I stand here tonight grateful....just in more comfortable shoes, and in a dress from a yard sale given to me by my stylish friend who also dresses like an old 67 year old like I do...@bethbrinker 👛 My lifetime friend & publisher @markfriedman1 took it. He has believed in me ever since I was in pigtails (which I still haven't grown out of.) And I guess what I'm trying to say is this : Nashville, as much as you've kicked my ass, you're still a redeeming town and it's the people who live here without fear that make me still love you. The ones who dream and live with a full heart and keep climbing up the hill is why you're still my favorite city. And Nashville- even though you are growing so fast and at times it's hard to watch all the change that is happening to you because It's like you're developing boobs too soon and you don't know how to handle all your 'cleavage power'. You're becoming more 'womanly' in the overwhelming bloom of your popularity. But to me, you're still in pigtails and you're still all heart....just bigger breasts learning how to be curvy and still being pure at the same time, growing at light speed.
I say Thank you to the brilliant ones who keep this city real and young and all heart @whiskeywolvesofthewest @timleejones @beardotheterrible @familywash @scottmulvahill @gabedixon @musiccityhitmakers
I don't know if this makes any sense, but at least you get to look at a cute picture of me standing next to a chicken stand not sad and overly serious, but smiling...in a padded bra. 🐥🐥🐥🍗🍗🍗🎢🚧🚧🏙🏙🏙🏙

Ruffles Wainwright. When you eat too many Ruffles, you get to wear a ruffles. @addysuz 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🥔🥔🥔🌊🌊🌊🌊#youatewhatyoueat I love you @addysuz 🦄🦄🦄

West Side Story is happening tomorrow night with these gangsters @familywash I'll be singing songs with one of my favorite guitar players and rock & roll heroes @beardotheterrible Bring your east nashville beard wig and roll up your goodwill used J Crew khakis with your loafers. It's gonna be a fun night! 👖👞👓 @reubenbidez will also be performing putting spells on all the locals. 👚🤗⛑

I was lost. and dreaming in high heel shoes. Wearing fake hair. Invincible and terrified.

This is a diary entry from that time.
March 3, 2007

if i had the chance to get a jeanie in a bottle to tell me what my future would look like,
i don’t think i would want to know.
the speed of life
is like a fast car
and the day by day oil changes are long and boring
but I guess the waiting
gives you character?
the struggle to keep your dreams alive and breathing and fed
can give you a thing called willpower?
Or maybe a rainbow happens?
And then maybe you find a five dollar bill
somewhere inside a pair of pants
that no longer fit you?
And you buy a sandwich?
And then the sandwich gives you strength to put your feet on the floor?
So you can start?
...again??
And then that shiney something
you set your eyes on for years
might start to unfold into a story that you don't recognize????
the most impossible dream we dream gives us a route?
Well, my stubborn, worn out heart makes me feel tired and nervous and confused.
No question mark. This is a fact.
The route I'm on is twisty it leads me to doubt my reflexes
and everyone calls me a bad driver and too much.
So
I go to places like bars
and things I start putting my trust into really start to break my heart because the thing I want so badly has become a habit And I hate to break habits because it's what I know. I like to dream. I've been told to dream. And I guess even if the dream becomes a nightmare or it doesn't happen, when I get older,
I can say 'I did that'. I got lost.
I got found.
I got Lost
On a spin cycle.

i have been told that god is working all the time. I suppose god gives us something more satisfying, more sexy than our original dream
Maybe a new dream is waiting for me somewhere in a golden field. A field I don't even know exists.
So i continue to pray, yearn, ask, dream, and live in this world knowing it WILL happen. and if it doesn’t,
I have faith that god has something better for me hiding Somewhere over the rainbow dormant in a dark rain cloud or hiding somewhere up his big old long wizard sleeve.

so, very simply I dream.

I'm thankful for god's wizard sleeves. #kristinbarlowe
#Diary

Me & @annehathaway in our matching @zacposen gowns. My hair was so huge and I was so hungry. #whoworeitbetter #blaps #Tbt

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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. nemsue taped this with her little 'Facebooking… https://t.co/Ubs85vLTPI
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Emily West

Hey paulsimonofficial 😉 You have a lot of young artists who are enamored by you. And it is an… https://t.co/FkaUSqM164
about 18 hours ago
Emily West

10 years ago a 🐥singer (me) decided to I stand in front of a chicken stand 🍗 and pose as a hot… https://t.co/8TwA2LSOLf
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