Ema Jolly[1] (born 8 January 1986), better known by her stage name Emika, is an English electronic musician of Czech origin (her mother is from Příbram[2]) currently residing in Berlin.

She started to make music at school (using an old sequencer program she found on a computer stashed in a cupboard)[7] and waitressed to save up for her first Apple Mac and copy of Logic Studio.

[8] Speaking of the reasons that made her leave Bristol, Emika explained: "I was very ill, physically, I've had to have some operations which weren't very successful and led to more, and had a long period quite surviving from morphine, really...

[7] In Berlin Emika began working as a sound designer for Native Instruments, while honing her own, "uniquely haunting" (AllMusic) musical style with her laptop, picking up ideas from the dance scene at the Berghain and Panoramabar clubs.

[8] Ninja Tune appreciated Emika's new, dark, downtempo dubstep direction and in January 2010, released "Drop the Other" as her debut single, which has also found its way into the label's 20th anniversary box set.

[12] Her second single "Double Edge" came out in May 2010[13] to be followed by "Count Backwards" (April 2011)[14] and "Pretend/Professional Loving", the latter came out in September 2011, and was remixed by Brandt Brauer Frick, Kyle Hall and DJ Rashad.

[5] Emika's music has been described as being influenced by various genres like early dubstep, electronica and classical,[16] critics compared her to PJ Harvey, The xx, Zola Jesus and Beth Gibbons.

[18] Despite her self-described "nerdy,"[19] studio-based background, Emika notes a major shift in her recent output evolving from the isolated nature of her self-titled debut LP to a more interactive and freewheeling piece of work in 2013's Dva.