About Me...

Emilyn is a metro-Vancouver-born Filipino-Canadian multi-instrumental backup musician turned independent singer/songwriter and artist. Since the age of 19 she's been rocking local venues such as the Roxy for the past decade, experimenting with pop genres pulling from everything from metal to rnb, working her way up into the summer festival scene around the Lower Mainland. Her current music tastes align with a delicious mix of Tori Kelly, Free Nationals, Dua Lipa, and Paramore. With heartfelt and poetic lyrics, get-stuck-in-your-head melodies, funk-inspired bass, and full harmonies, Emilyn is here not just to create music, but community. Emilyn has delivered engaging and heartfelt performances solo, as well as entertained thousands with a band of top-notch local Vancouver session musicians and friends. 

Gaining musical knowledge in choirs all throughout her teens, she started teaching music and vocal coaching within her musical theatre productions. That inspired her to begin teaching singing lessons with various professional music schools around the lower mainland while she completed her bachelor’s degree at SFU and then her teaching degree with UBC. She joined various musical groups and clubs as well as started a brand new open mic at the SFU local pub, eventually leading her to meet many amazing musicians in many different genres of music. 

From there, Emilyn started singing backup vocals and playing percussion for her best friend Josh Job, eventually getting noticed by other artists and groups wanting someone who could harmonize on a dime and have fun on stage while doing it. Indigenous (Indie-Rock) group Sister Says took her to her first festival stages, while the Travis James (Pop/Folk) band played Granville Street on weekends. Then she played with Maria Cenzina (Rnb/Alternative), Victoria Groff (Pop), Tess Anderson (Alt-Rock) and more. She met Adrian Fitzpatrick, a local bassist with similar ambitions, as well as Keely Rammage-Scott, Jeremiah Gowen, and more session musicians who were all noticing the same things. 

Noticing a lack of connection between all the different communities within the Vancouver music scene, Emilyn banded together with her community and set out to bring them together, culminating in the birth of “theprojectvancity” and The Metro Vancouver Musician & Videography Society: an organization dedicated to bringing musicians together across genres and sectors of the Vancouver music scene. The Project Vancity video series acts as a bridge across barriers for musicians to come together and collaborate. 

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