After working with several bands, she won the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi in March 2010, and signed a contract with record label Universal Music.

[13][14] Marrone started her professional musical career in 2003, when she took part in the second Italian edition of Popstars (later renamed Superstar Tour); she won the talent show, and along with Laura Pisu and Colomba Pane formed Lucky Star.

In March 2010, through Universal Music she released her first EP, Oltre, which was very successful in Italy, peaking at number one for two weeks on the Italian Albums Chart.

Marrone participated in the Sanremo Music Festival 2011 with the group Modà with the song "Arriverà", finishing in second place, behind Roberto Vecchioni.

In July 2011 Marrone participated in a festival dedicated to Italian singer Giorgio Gaber, singing two songs, "Io non-mi sento italiano" and "La libertà".

On 31 March 2012, Marrone returned to the talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi, competing in the category "BIG", which was won by Alessandra Amoroso.

[46] Amoroso announced her intention to split the prize, consisting of a free concert at Arena di Verona which was subsequently held on 5 September 2012, with Marrone.

[60] On 8 October 2012, Marrone performed in concert for Puglia Sounds at the Koko Club in London, promoting music from the region of Apulia.

[64] On 11 November 2012, a preview of the music video for the song "Non sono solo te", of which Marrone was both producer and screenwriter, was released on the site of Corriere della Sera.

[65][66] In February 2013, for the second consecutive year, Marrone received a nomination for the Kids' Choice Award 2013 in the category of Best Italian Singer.

It included 15 songs performed live at the Arena di Verona, as well as the studio version of "Resta ancora un po'", which was released as the album's lead single on 6 October 2014.

[79] In 2016, "Io di te non-ho paura", "Il paradiso non-esiste" and "Quando le canzoni finiranno" were released as singles.

Along with "Libre", the reissue included a cover of Dawn Penn's "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)", the unreleased original song "Nel posto più lontano" and a disc recorded live in Milan.

[90] The song's music video was directed by Paolo Stella and Alex Grazioli and uploaded to Emma's official YouTube channel on the same day.

[100] An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Paolo Mannarino and uploaded to Emma's official YouTube channel on 9 September 2019.

[103] Despite its success on radio and sales,[104] the underperformance of "Io sono bella" on streaming services limited its chart performance, provoking a Twitter campaign in November 2019, with fans criticising Spotify for excluding the song from the platform's biggest playlists.

In addition to the album's title and release date, Emma revealed the cover and announced a concert on 25 May 2020, her birthday, at the Arena di Verona, to celebrate Fortuna and ten years of her solo music career.

The album calls upon a variety of musical influences, with an array of producers including Dario Faini, Luca Mattoni, Elisa Toffoli, Andrea Rigonat and Frenetik & Orang3.

[115][116] On 4 February 2020, Emma was a guest at the first night of the Sanremo Music Festival 2020, performing "Stupida allegria" and a medley of "Non è l'inferno", "Arriverà", "Amami" and "Fortuna".

[118] On 28 February 2020, Emma was a guest on Amici di Maria De Filippi, performing "Stupida allegria" and "Luci blu", the latter of which was announced as the next single.

[121] The song describes the death of a partner and the resulting guilt, with the titular blue lights being those of an ambulance arriving at the scene of an accident.

[124] Emma then takes part in the record project 'Note di viaggio - Capitolo 2: non vi succederà niente' by Francesco Guccini, in which she reinterprets the song ''Autunno'' with Roberto Vecchioni.

[129] After her last season as a coach on X-Factor, Marrone starred in Gabriele Muccino's Sky Italia series A casa tutti bene, which aired between December 2021 and January 2022.

[130] Emma competed at the Sanremo Music Festival 2022 with the song "Ogni volta è così", placing sixth in the final ranking.

[156] In September 2011, she participated in the inauguration of the Tutti a scuola, broadcast on RAI 1, which was attended, among others, by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano and Francesco Profumo of the Ministry of Education, University and Research.

[157] Subsequently, she participated in the concert O'Scià – IX edition, an event born to create awareness of the problem of illegal immigration that for years afflicted the island of Sicily.

[161] On 11 July 2012, she participated in the concert SLAncio di vita, against the SLA, aimed at funding research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

[162] In the summer of 2012 she worked with the Civil Protection of Misericordia, donating the entire proceeds of her concert to Lastra a Signa of 21 July, for the purchase of a multi-purpose machine.

Following a brief separation caused by his affair with Giulia Pauselli, another talent show dancer,[165] De Martino announced in March 2011 that he and Marrone were back together.

The current lineup is as follows: * We therefore exclude the formation of instrumental and vocal membership of the previous band of which she was a member: Karadreon, Lucky Star, M.j.u.r, Anonimo Soul and H2O.