Emm Gryner
Emm Gryner (born June 8, 1975, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is a Filipino-Irish… Read Full Bio ↴Emm Gryner (born June 8, 1975, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is a Filipino-Irish pop singer-songwriter based in Canada. She spent her childhood in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario. In 1995 she moved to Toronto, and the following year formed her own label, Dead Daisy Records, through which she released her first album, The Original Leap Year. In 1997 she was invited to play a set at Lilith Fair and subsequently was signed to Mercury Records in 1998, under whom she released her album Public.
After being dropped by the label in 1999, she released several more records under the Dead Daisy banner: Science Fair in 1999, Dead Relatives in 2000, Girl Versions in 2001, and Asianblue in 2002. She toured extensively in David Bowie's backup band during 2000 and 2001. She also toured with Swedish band The Cardigans in 2004 on the Chicks With Attitude tour.
Gryner has since released a DVD called Videochrome in 2003, featuring all four of her independent music videos and three previously unreleased songs. She released an album of Irish cover songs, Songs of Love and Death, featuring a guest contribution from Gryner's neighbour Kate McGarrigle, in January 2005.
On September 27, 2005, she released a limited edition homemade album called The Great Lakes which she wrote, recorded, mixed, printed, hand-stamped, stapled, embossed, cut, burned, packaged, and signed specially for her fans.
Gryner married visual artist Sean Odell in 2004. The couple currently lives in rural Ontario.
In 2005, she started a new band, Hot One, where she performs bass and vocals. Other Hot One members include Nathan Larson (guitar and vocals), film-score composer and guitarist with of Shudder to Think and Guided by Voices. Larson is married to the Cardigans' front-woman Nina Pearson. Kevin March is Hot One's drummer and Jordan Kern plays guitar. Hot One will be released in late August 2006.
Emm's latest studio album, The Summer of High Hopes was released in Ireland on May 12, 2006 and in North America on September 26, 2006. In the November 2006 issue of Q Magazine, celebrating the magazine's 20th anniversary, U2 frontman Bono recognized the track "Almighty Love" from Emm's new album as one of six songs that he wished he had written from the last 20 years of music.
Gryner also contributed vocals to the song "It's Always Raining in Dublin" on vitaminsforyou's 2006 album The Legend of Bird's Hill. She contributed on the 2006 Oxfam album by The Cake Sale.
After being dropped by the label in 1999, she released several more records under the Dead Daisy banner: Science Fair in 1999, Dead Relatives in 2000, Girl Versions in 2001, and Asianblue in 2002. She toured extensively in David Bowie's backup band during 2000 and 2001. She also toured with Swedish band The Cardigans in 2004 on the Chicks With Attitude tour.
Gryner has since released a DVD called Videochrome in 2003, featuring all four of her independent music videos and three previously unreleased songs. She released an album of Irish cover songs, Songs of Love and Death, featuring a guest contribution from Gryner's neighbour Kate McGarrigle, in January 2005.
On September 27, 2005, she released a limited edition homemade album called The Great Lakes which she wrote, recorded, mixed, printed, hand-stamped, stapled, embossed, cut, burned, packaged, and signed specially for her fans.
Gryner married visual artist Sean Odell in 2004. The couple currently lives in rural Ontario.
In 2005, she started a new band, Hot One, where she performs bass and vocals. Other Hot One members include Nathan Larson (guitar and vocals), film-score composer and guitarist with of Shudder to Think and Guided by Voices. Larson is married to the Cardigans' front-woman Nina Pearson. Kevin March is Hot One's drummer and Jordan Kern plays guitar. Hot One will be released in late August 2006.
Emm's latest studio album, The Summer of High Hopes was released in Ireland on May 12, 2006 and in North America on September 26, 2006. In the November 2006 issue of Q Magazine, celebrating the magazine's 20th anniversary, U2 frontman Bono recognized the track "Almighty Love" from Emm's new album as one of six songs that he wished he had written from the last 20 years of music.
Gryner also contributed vocals to the song "It's Always Raining in Dublin" on vitaminsforyou's 2006 album The Legend of Bird's Hill. She contributed on the 2006 Oxfam album by The Cake Sale.
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Emm Gryner Lyrics
89 Days Of Alcatraz I want to burn the letters that I wrote you Over…
A Little War I've laid my gun to rest Below my feet I've forgteen how…
Acid You left a good drug on my tongue And I know…
Ageless I'm at Mount St. I Don't Know I'm lookin' up …
All Time Low If drugs, helped, you Not black out together now But that's …
All-Time Low If drugs, helped, you not black out together now. But that…
Almighty Love You don’t write back when you promise to the moon has…
Anything Goes In olden days a glimpse of stockings Was looked on as…
Atlas I swear I saw you On page 32 Between America and Asian In…
Beautiful Things You walked into the room And assumed the whole world spins…
Big Bang Baby Got a picture of a photograph Of a wedding and a…
Big Day Happy, happy birthday It's a good day for growing up Up and…
Billy Hang On Billy hang on, tomorrow won't be so bad Escape to a…
Blackwinged Bird Night can't come quick enough My faults shine in the…
Boy Races You are not of this world Not of the great dead…
Boy With An Affliction City in the snow Heart under siege Boy with an affliction …
Breaking News Cars on the coast lined up hollow as ghosts and…
Breathless Go on go on Leave me breathless Come on Hey, yeah The …
Butterflies It was years ago When we flew Nothing came between Me and yo…
Case of Tornadoes Case of tornadoes when you come around. Everything that mat…
Christopher Winter hangs on just like a jilted love Left to pass…
Ciao Monday Is it the future is it the past Open my…
Closure Wait and this will pass Just the way winter melted so…
Crazy Train Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as…
Cry Me a River Now you say you're lonely You cry the whole night through We…
Daryn Song Hey George you're peculiar, alive in my TV This will put…
Death Is A New Day All the world's on hold inside this room I try to…
Deckchairs and Cigarettes Well, what can you do When all that surrounds you Says slow…
Die Evergreen You picked a sound time to roll when we're near…
Disco Lights Give me disco lights while I've got dishes on repeat You're…
Divine Like You It's been one devil of a year Came out of my…
Doomsday "Do everything that you've never done" Says the man on the…
East Coast Angel I've been driving around too much I've been cold and confuse…
Empty Hole put my faith in the wrong place drunken hearts of golden…
Fast Exit He said "my stage is a war torn land A…
Fetching Decay I need you to be the cancer that swallows me All…
For What Reason This won't be the last you'll hear from me It's just…
Free There are times you hold the deed to my insides And…
Girls Are Murder It started when the daylight hit her open wound How a…
Goddess You can blame the Blackout For why you didn’t call There’s…
Good Riddance Urban hello Electric holiday Whatever you say, but you don…
Green Goodnight Trying to shake my indigo in June I'm off to some…
Half Sorry Thank God I've got three minutes to tell you what…
Headline Girl Headline girl Give it away Tell it on the mountain Tell it o…
Heartsleeves Take all of your tears and make A great lake…
Hello Aquarius Aquarius the maze is here again Bishop made a joke in…
Home You got yourself a winner A bird that loves to…
Hook Machine I left my heavy guitars in Maidenhead Instead of yelling and…
Is that All There Is I remember when I was a little girl Our house caught…
Joan Joan hides the blue like a pro Like all the green…
Julia Tattooed and wide-eyed Eastern standard time Car smoke and p…
Julie Ocean So sad to see you've got silver She's gonna break your…
July I fell in love with you in July Tripped on my…
Just Friends Just friends, lovers no more Just friends but not like befor…
Last Day On Earth Way up north where the river runs I've gone to…
Leftover Love Day 1 of this love gushed like Niagara Falls You said…
Let It Snow Snow angel in the dark A rally no one hears about She's…
Lonely Boy Saw a face From my childhood days A smiling girl Not a fr…
Lonestar All the stars above I named for you Constellations spun like…
Mary Jill Yes it's gonna be Yes tt's gonna be I'll save you from…
Moorlough Shore Your hills and dales and flowery vales That lie near the…
Nevertheless Maybe I'm right and maybe I'm wrong Maybe I'm weak and…
North he record's all done and life's moved on and I'm …
Northern Holiday Drive to the kicked in radio The sunshine leaves me stoned W…
Orange Colored Sky I was walking along, minding my business When out of an…
Parting Song Should I not survive this, you should take this song…
Phonecall A corporate nightmare on a Sunday night A grown-up reminder…
Pour Some Sugar on Me Love is like a bomb, baby, come on get it…
Remedy You've lived more than nine lives Everybody knows Gunfire an…
Revenge Red hair running through all the Small-town haze Fifteen v…
Saturday Night In Nowhere Quiet sirens never get it on Turn the lights off and…
Sea Song You look different every time You come from the foam, creste…
Serenade Dust from a dim southern star Digits flash in double time Sa…
Shining Light Roman candles that burn in the night, Yeah, you are a…
Siamese Star Oh do do... Oh do do... Oh do do... New York is getting…
Song 2 Woo hoo! Woo hoo! Woo hoo! Woo hoo! I got my head chec…
Southern Dreamer Waste it all in the Rend, or laugh it down…
Stardeep Rain on the Soho Grand Icicles and tired houses Burning…
Stereochrome March on by like stardust in the sky Brave or blinded…
Straight To Hell If you can play on fiddle How's about a British jig…
Straight To You The towers of ivory are crumbling And the swallows have sha…
Suffer If I had the chance, One good chance To dry your heavy…
Summerlong I used to be contagious Like the blue waves on my…
Survive All the girls shiver in the nightclub queue I'm not…
Symphonic You're running through the underground Hiding your real firs…
The Day We Hit The Coast I'm going down to the river, I'm going down to…
The End Here comes the end of March And I'm failing all the…
The Good You Make Hide up high by the landslide Sirens don't make it to…
The Race You are not of this world Not of the great dead…
This Mad It's the start of the month, one of twelve I…
Top Speed I got a cage I need to break out Crashed your…
Transatlantic I'd sing to you at Carberry's I'd sing to you…
Waiting Room I am a patient boy I wait, I wait, I wait,…
What Fighters Do I guess you wonder where I've been I searched to find…
Where or When It seems we stood and talked like this before We looked…
Wisdom Bus I'm falling to pieces But I put my request to god…
Yellow Can you see the yellow on the road Lying there for…
You Do Something To Me You do something to me, something deep inside I'm hanging on…
Young As The Night I'll take carbon monoxide and whiskey Over All the pressu…
Young Rebel 1:45 and I feel barely alive I think of you in…
Your Sort Of Human Being I don't think I'm going to Soho for spring You wouldn't…