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Erika M. Anderson, better known by her stage name EMA, is an American singer and songwriter from South Dakota. Originally the lead singer of drone-folk band Gowns, she released her debut album ''Little Sketches on Tape'' in 2010 on Night People, an independent music label founded by former Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. In 2011 EMA released her second album ''Past Life Martyred Saints'', which received positive reviews from Pitchfork Media, Drowned in Sound, and the ''NME''. After releasing her debut album, EMA was named "New Band of the Day" by ''The Guardian'' and "Artist to Watch" by ''Rolling Stone''. In 2011 she performed "Endless, Nameless" for ''Spin''s twentieth anniversary tribute to Nirvana's album ''Nevermind''. Her song "The Grey Ship" was used on an episode of Adult Swim's Off the Air. She has been heavily blogged about and was described by Yahoo! News as one of the most blogged artist of the week. This was calculated using an aggregator of 1000 music blogs.

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