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Other bios: the band /contributing musicians
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Guitarist and singer/songwriter Emily Hickey has been a working musician in San Francisco since 2001. Her first effort was Gameface, a solo album of original material recorded and produced with her brother Shep in Lake Tahoe in January of 2001. After releasing Gameface, Emily joined up with guitarist John LeBlanc to start the San Francisco band Boyfriend, which stayed together for the next two years gigging locally at clubs including the Hotel Utah, Broadway Studios and Grant and Green. In 2003 the band recorded Break Up the Skies, a 12 song album produced by Eric Friedmann of Solana Records at Get Reel Productions in San Francisco.
Emily's vision with Boyfriend was to pull together some of the best musicians in SF to play big, ambitious rock songs that happened to be written and fronted by a female lead. The band recruited Eric Friedmann to produce Break Up the Skies, giving the album his signature sound of Pretenders-ish old school rock. Taking a break from Boyfriend, Emily worked with a group of friends on a six song record called Sporty James, available soon through cdbaby.com.
Emily is now working as a solo musician and is just about to release her debut solo album, Famous Places. You can get advance copies of the cd now through cdbaby.com.
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In her non-musical life, Emily is a graduate student at Stanford, finishing up this summer finally! She previously worked for San Francisco non-profit WildAid and before moving to California, lived and worked for several years in New York City. Her creative and accomplished brothers, sister and parents have always kept an artistic dialogue going on many fronts and provided a groundwork of inspiration and support. Her outside musical influences include the Stones/Beatles/Zeppelin, the Replacements, U2, Camper Van Beethoven, the Band, the Grateful Dead, the Pixies, Pavement, Jane's Addiction, and Van Morrison.
Emily grew up in St. Louis and went to college at UNC Chapel Hill. You can email her at emily@emilyhickey.com.
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