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Emma Smith
British jazz singer Emma Smith gained experience as a teenager touring with The
String of Pearls Orchestra, a group that specialized in the music of Glenn
Miller. She went on to become the first jazz vocalist to receive a scholarship
to the Purcell School of Music. In 2009 she performed as Eartha Kitt and
Rosemary Clooney in a BBC program about Billy Strayhorn. In 2012 she became part
of the nostalgic, close-harmony vocal group The Puppini Sisters, and released
her first album, The Huntress, which earned strong reviews that often noted her
mature sound was unexpected from a perfo...
