With every lyric a confession, with every note a reminder of what it means to be alive.
An acoustic artist and maternal health advocate using music to tell the truth about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
About Emma MArie
Emma Marie is an acoustic singer-songwriter with a soulful, gospel-tinged voice and one of the UK’s most distinctive, emerging voices voices in maternal health. By day she works as a Women’s Health Commissioner in the NHS and serves as a trustee for Maternity Action, a national charity focused on the economic realities of pregnancy. By night, in the small hours between family life and school runs, she writes songs.
Her music draws on the everyday intimacy of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood; the moments of joy, grief, uncertainty, and wonder that rarely make it into clinical conversations but live permanently in the bodies and memories of mothers. As a Black British woman, she writes with a particular awareness of the inequalities that shape who gets heard, who gets believed, and who gets safe care.
The Mumdane Life is her ongoing series of acoustic films and live performance - honest, warm, and quietly radical - that give those experiences a voice.
Work With Me
Emma Marie works at the intersection of arts, health, and lived experience. The ways to collaborate are vast and varied.
— Live performance at health, arts, and community events
— Keynote performance: opening or closing conferences with music that sets the emotional context for the day
— Artist residencies at universities, hospitals, and cultural institutions
— CPD workshops for healthcare staff on humanising maternity care through the arts
— Songwriting commissions for campaigns, charities, and health organisations
— Sessional vocals and studio work
— Consultancy on arts-in-health programme design
If you’re programming an event that needs more than a speaker — or a speaker who also happens to sing — let’s talk.
emma marie sings.
Experience an intimate live session with Emma Marie - Performing Wonderwall (Reimagined) and Carry You, an original work dedicated to her grandmother.
The first instalment of the Mumdane Diary, Small Hours. Emma Marie shares the deep need for solitude in the busyness of motherhood.
Emma Marie reflects on the pain of when your birth doesn’t go to plan. Questioning the why’s and capabilities of her body.
Emma Marie asks the audience at Pizza Express Holborn why life often doesn’t go to plan and if there is a chance to do over.
Services
Delivering soulful excellence in live performance, songwriting and studio sessions.
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The Mumdane Life is more than a performance; it’s a programme. Combining original songwriting, lived experience, strategic understanding of women’s health, this intimate acoustic set brings the hidden realities of pregnancy and parenthood into the room. Honest and beautifully human, it’s been developed to sit within women’s health conferences, arts festivals, social prescribing programmes, institutional events, and community spaces alike.
Emma Marie is available as a keynote performer, artist-in-residence, or headline act and can tailor the set to your audience, whether that’s midwives, new mothers, commissioners, or the general public.
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Whether you need heartfelt originals, reimagined covers, or something that opens a conference in a way a PowerPoint never could, Emma Marie delivers. Acoustic, live band or with high-quality backing tracks, she reads a room and performs to it — intimate enough for a listening session of twenty, powerful enough for a main stage.
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Need distinct, high-quality vocals for your project? Emma Marie offers professional recording services with a signature tone that elevates your sound and brings your vision to life.
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Emma Marie writes songs that span genres, moods, and themes—from intimate ballads to upbeat anthems. If your project needs a seasoned songwriter with emotional depth and creative range, she’s ready to collaborate.
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let’s connect
If you are a commissioner, programmer, funder, or fellow creator I’d love to hear from you. Whether you’d like to collaborate, book me for an event, connect about The Mumdane Life, my inbox is always open.
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