Val Emmich

摇滚歌手Val Emmich，1979年出生于美国新泽西州，有意大利、俄罗斯和德国等多国血统，爱好体育足球，但是由于15岁的时候被确诊为莱姆病Lyme Disease（由跳蚤引起的慢性炎症，会影响关节和心脏，不能做剧烈运动），因而转向了音乐，他自高中毕业后就开始写歌，从鲁特格斯大学毕业后，他全心投入音乐创作中，在2001年夏在没有和任何唱片公司签约之下，独立发行了自己第一张EP《The 15-Minute Relationship》，后与音乐制作人Wayne Dorell合作，在2003年3月推出了第一张唱片《Slow Down Kid》。之后，他加入了Sony Music旗下的Red Ink label唱片公司并在04年10月重新发行了《Slow Down Kid》的完整版, 之后相继发行了《Sunlight Searchparty 》(2006)，《Songs, Volume 1: Woodstock》 (2007)，《Little Daggers》 (2008)[。除了音乐外，他也出演过一些电视剧和电影。 如《丑女贝蒂》第三季,《30 rock》（我为喜剧狂），《女人帮》，并在08年夏主演了电影《Fighting Fish》.
他的音乐风格受 Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Wilco, Björk, Radiohead, R.E.M., Bright Eyes等影响，我觉得还是很好听的，大家可以上他的官网和space去了解下~
Space： myspace/valemmich
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Rock singer/songwriter Val Emmich was raised in Manalapan, NJ, and took up the guitar after he was diagnosed with Lyme Disease at the age of 15 and was forced to curtail his physical activities. Soon, he was writing his own songs. He attended Rutgers University, and after graduating turned to music full-time, releasing his first EP, The 15-Minute Relationship, in the summer of 2001 without the benefit of a record contract. He then turned to producer Wayne Dorell (who has worked with Tonic, Yo La Tengo, and Pavement), to help with his first full-length disc. Enlisting guitarist Anthony Bianco and drummer Eric Micali, they recorded Slow Down Kid, issued by Childlike Records in March 2003. With that, Emmich hired a publicist and shot a video for the track "Privacy Attracts a Crowd" that earned airplay on MTV2, and eventually he became the first unsigned artist ever to appear on MTV's Total Request Live. Naturally, he didn't remain unsigned for long, joining the Red Ink label, which had distribution through the Epic Records imprint of Sony Music. With that, he went back into the studio to make a refurbished version of Slow Down Kid. He kept six songs (with new overdubs on some), added four new ones, and got a new mix by Tom Lord-Alge for the Red Ink version of Slow Down Kid that was released in October 2004.