Biography
Born in 1975, Emm Gryner spent her childhood in rural Forest, Ontario, where she trained on classical piano from a young age. At ten she composed her debut song and shortly afterward assembled a band alongside her two brothers, taking on vocals and bass. During her teenage years she began capturing original songs on four-track, then at twenty moved to Toronto, launched the independent imprint Dead Daisy, and put out the 1995 album And Distrust It. The Original Leap Year arrived the next year, leading to a 1998 deal with Mercury that produced the major-label release Public. Though Mercury ended the arrangement in 1999, she still delivered four Dead Daisy albums—Science Fair, Dead Relatives, Girl Versions, and Asianblue—across the following four years on the label she had started in 1996. The 2005 collection Songs of Love and Death, featuring traditional Irish material, appeared that year, coinciding with her collaboration with New York musician Nathan Larsen to establish the political glam-rock outfit Hot One, completed by Jordan Kern and Kevin March. In 2006 Gryner issued the solo record The Summer of High Hope, co-produced by Larsen, while Hot One released its self-titled debut.
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