Emily Jane White is an American singer and songwriter from Oakland, California[1] who has released seven solo albums and toured internationally.
[3] White's father worked as a Merchant Marine out of the Port of Oakland, and her mother was a special education teacher for the Mendocino Unified School District.
[12][13] White's second album, entitled Victorian America, was released in October 2009 in Europe on Talitres, and on April 27, 2010, in the U.S. by Milan Records.
[22] In July 2016, White released her fifth album They Moved in Shadow All Together that was described as "bringing her concern for race and gender equality to the fore of her poetic folk-pop".
[24][25] In 2022, White's 2007 song "Hole in the Middle" was featured in the menu screen for the video game As Dusk Falls.
White explained her interest in "the shadow side of life" by stating that "you can unveil and sort of reveal…subtleties and nuances and undercurrents of things that are existing but no one wants to talk about".
[1] Her literary inspirations are often cited to be Cormac McCarthy, Emily Brontë, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edgar Allan Poe.