Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Biography Gryner was born in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario to a father of half Irish heritagehttp://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4949&page=1 http://www.nowontour.com/news/interviews/00055.php and a Filipina mother. Emm started her music career in Toronto, working office jobs during the day while honing her live show in small, local clubs by night. Gryner entered her original song "Wisdom Bus" in a nationwide songwriting contest and won. With the money from this prize, she recorded an album called The Original Leap Year and released it on her own Dead Daisy Records. The album attracted the attention of Violent Femmes producer, Warren Bruleigh. Bruleigh passed the album onto an exec at Mercury Records who signed Gryner. The result was Public, a brit-pop-inspired album that yielded a hit in Canada called "Summerlong". S

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