Emmy The Great

Melding earnest '60s-style girl pop with inventive acoustic styling and punk chops, folksinger Emma-Lee Moss was born in Hong Kong, but later moved with her family to England. Rechristened Emmy the Great, she would become a fixture of London's burgeoning anti-folk scene. Her articulate songs basked in melodic hooks with arrangements much more majestic and elaborate than many of her peers and a fluttering vocal style which split the difference between Dar Williams and Judy Collins. She became a fixture of the U.K. festival scene and by the end of the '00s, singles like "We Almost Had a Baby" found her breaking into the mainstream.

• rock
• dance