Emei

A little drama never hurt anybody. Emei knows how to bring it too. She’s an unabashed “theater kid” who grew up into an Ivy League-educated pop femme fatale at the helm of a crazy, candy-coated, and colorful world of her own making. With a bold voice that’s as vibrant as her personality, the New Jersey-born Chinese-American songstress delivers clever and catchy anthems meant to be blasted out loud.

She primarily spoke Chinese at home and studied under her vocal coach, Sally Gu, from the Chinese school she attended on weekends. Beyond listening to Chinese pop, she immersed herself in musicals, spinning her parents’ West Side Story CD on repeat. Soaring on stage, she placed third on Chinese Idol at 15 and later appeared on China’s Dancing with the Stars. After earning a degree in cognitive science from Yale University, she uploaded original music online.

Emei made major waves with 2022’s “Late to the Party,” surging on TikTok and igniting her End of an Era EP. She reached critical mass with the single “Scatterbrain,” touted as one of Spotify’s “Best Pop Songs of 2023,” which eclipsed 71 million Spotify streams, followed by “Irresponsible” with 31 million Spotify streams.

Earmilk hailed her “smooth vocals singing charming tongue-in-cheek lyrics,” and Atwood Magazine marveled at how “her audience connects to that palpable electricity.” OnesToWatch called her “one of the most promising alt-pop artists to watch.” She has received attention from Billboard, People, Wonderland, and Lyrical Lemonade, as well as BBC Radio 1 and Triple J. Spotify handpicked her as one of Pop Rising’s “Artists To Watch” for 2024.

She notably sold out a series of dates across Australia. Throughout 2025, she headlined her biggest tour to date and performed to sold-out crowds coast-to-coast in the US and in the EU. After gathering over a quarter-of-a-billion streams, selling out shows, and attracting multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning mega-producer Ricky Reed [Lizzo, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Phantogram, Jon Batiste] to her corner, she embraces her theatricality on her Night At The Opera EP [Atlantic Records / Nice Life].

Event details:
- Presented by: S&S Presents
- Artist: Emei
- Tour: Night at the Opera Tour
- With support: Madelline
- Date: Tuesday, October 6
- Doors: 7:00 PM
- All Ages
- Venue: The Grand at The Complex