Known for her live shows and incredible stage presence, Emmy Cerra is taking the acoustic-rock scene by storm. Since the release of her debut album, Metamorphic, she has been invited to perform at shows to entertain thousands. If you like pre-pubescent chicks that lip-sync and rely on sixty-year-old men to write their music...keep looking.

The Massachusetts native never took part in any formal music training, opting to take her own approach instead. She spent her early years bouncing around from home to home and town to town, eventually setting out on her own at the age of fourteen. She saved up her money, bought a guitar and spent her high school years going to school, working full-time, and playing music every chance she had. When she was nineteen, Emmy started performing live doing cover songs at dive bars in Lowell, MA. She quickly began throwing her original material into the mix. Soon people were singing along to Emmy's songs and cover songs were being played less and less.

Emmy then decided to study a bit of music engineering at a local studio and recorded her first album called Metamorphic. Half of this album was recorded in her bedroom and the other half at the studio where she was studying. When you hear the album, you not only hear the music; you hear her fingers and her lips, you hear her honesty and emotion.

Emmy also performs and records with Mel who is an influence to her musically and personally.  A native of Stafford, Virginia, Mel Fitzhugh (A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe: Music Theory and Composition) has performed with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Coro Allegro, the Harvard Wind Ensemble, the Village Circle Band, and WACSAC. She studied composition and conducting with Roger Marsh, Jeff Stadelman, Beverly Taylor, James Yannatos and Thomas G. Everett. Melika, who has composed music for film and stage, was a member of Just In Time Composers and Players and is currently a member of eclectic music ensemble Urban Myth and Lucretia's Daggers (a darkwave futuristic metal band), in addition to playing bass recorder with medieval/renaissance ensamble Quilisma Consort, Melika enjoys playing a variety of instruments for folk dance ensembles, including violin/viola, guitar/bass, recorders, flute, dumbek/djembe/kahoun.

Emmy's not one to search for people to get her music heard, she started embarking on that as well. Doing as many shows as she could and starting her own label so she could get her CD in local stores and record shops. "I figured with my own record company I could release the kind of music I wanted my name on," says Emmy. "I can be true to myself and the music I love. I'm also 100% responsible for the way it sounds. I understand that doing it myself means that there will never be a time when I can rest, and I'm prepared for that."

Emmy has lent her talents to organizations such as the September Concerts in New York City, the Fem-Soul Folk Festival and the Go-Girls Music Festival which supports the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon. Along the way, she has played alongside such artist as Beth Hart, Gilli Moon, Jess Klein and Antje Duvekot. For someone so young, she has already accomplished a great deal and it doesn't look like she will be stopping anytime soon. "My priority is connecting with people through the music I write and perform," says Emmy. "As long as I've touched one person, that's success to me."

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