1. Emma Louise Blackery was born on 11 November 1991 and is an English singer-songwriter, YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and author.
27 Facts About Emma Blackery
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Active since 2012, Blackery has garnered over a million subscribers on her YouTube channel and released two studio albums and six EPs.
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Emma Blackery has toured with Busted, and headlined tours for her debut studio album Villains, released on her RWG Records label in 2018.
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Emma Blackery performed and was a panelist at YouTube events, and has contributed twice to the YouTube Rewind video series.
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Emma Blackery's book, Feel Good 101: The Outsiders' Guide to a Happier Life, is based on her 2013 Feel Good 101 video series.
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Emma Blackery grew up in Basildon, Essex, finishing sixth form at Bromfords School in Wickford.
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Emma Blackery briefly lived in Australia and Papua New Guinea, where she worked as a waitress before moving back and beginning her career as a musician and YouTuber.
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Emma Blackery released her debut demo-EP, Human Behaviour, in early 2012 exclusively on Bandcamp.
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On 4 April 2016, Emma Blackery announced that she would join pop punk band Busted on their Pigs Can Fly tour.
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Emma Blackery released her fifth EP, Magnetised, on 26 May 2017.
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Emma Blackery founded her independent record label, RWG Records, in 2018 and began work on her debut studio album Villains.
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Emma Blackery shared that during the album's creation, she learned more about production and the artistic direction she wanted to go in.
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Emma Blackery released "Cute Without You", coproduced with Toby Scott, in April 2019, adapted from a demo she produced herself as part of a collaboration with Rimmel London the year prior.
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Emma Blackery released her sixth EP, My Arms Are Open, on 15 May 2020.
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Emma Blackery went on to release lyric videos for songs "Plot Holes" and "History of Touches".
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Emma Blackery has described them as "some really personal lyric videos", which she created herself both in her home studio and outside near her home at sunset.
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On 10 December 2020 Emma Blackery released a standalone single titled "Blossom".
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On 22 November 2020, Emma Blackery announced during a YouTube video that her second studio album was in production, due to be released in 2021.
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On 9 June 2021, Emma Blackery revealed her second album's title, Girl in a Box, through a series of tweets, where she posted the album's cover art, alongside the release date of 27 August 2021.
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Emma Blackery had to reschedule for June 2022 for COVID-19 reasons.
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Emma Blackery was initially inspired by Shane Dawson, Smosh, Dan Howell, Phil Lester and, in 2017, by Troye Sivan.
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In 2018, Emma Blackery had three active YouTube channels; other channels have been deleted, re-branded, or left inactive.
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In 2013, Emma Blackery participated in YouTube's Geek Week, and Grace Helbig featured her in a Not Too Deep podcast the following year.
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Emma Blackery expressed her unhappiness with YouTube Rewind after two appearances, and The Guardian cited Blackery as one of three case studies of pressure and YouTube burnout in 2018.
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Emma Blackery sang it again in November 2018 to celebrate the end of Google+.
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Emma Blackery wrote Feel Good 101: The Outsiders' Guide to a Happier Life, addressing depression, self-harm, anxiety and other issues.
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In 2015, Emma Blackery disclosed that she had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.