I’m Emma Back and I’m so pleased you are here. I can’t wait to meet you and hear your music!
Hello there, beauty – welcome!
I believe you were born to offer your Soul Sound as a source of healing and inspiration for others.
But I know what it's like to know music is your divine calling…
… while questioning your worth and value as an artist.
I too have been a burned-out-struggling artist playing empty bars.
I too have spent years seeking validation in the wrong places, suffered debilitating stage fright, anxiety, illness, injury and endless self-doubt.
Like you, I was taught to silence the voice of the divine feminine in order to survive a world that emphasizes external success as the ultimate validation of self-worth.
As a child, I imagined my life as a musician to be glorious.
I saw myself on big stages, the audience silent and waiting for me. The lights would dim. I’d walk out onto the stage to thunderous applause. I’d sing my heart out, without fear, and everyone would love me
But by the time I was 19, I’d lost my faith.
The failed auditions. The empty clubs. The teasing high-school bullies. The criticism of music teachers and industry authorities…
It all became just too much...
…. Soon, the smallest of shows terrified me. My throat would literally close up with the pressure.
Boxes of CDs I’d worked hard and spent tons of money to make sat buried in the closet.
When I’d invite people to come see me play they would say things like “I can’t afford the $5 cover.”
But I soldiered on…
Even as my stage fright grew and it became harder and harder to get booked.
I said yes to every gig I could get. I worked my butt off practicing and preparing for it. Show after show, I’d sing my heart out to a nearly empty room. I’d put up with sexual innuendos from drunken men. I’d make no money and leave with my voice worn ragged from singing over the noise of clinking glasses and incessant talking.
My resignation deepened….
“No one cares. Who do I think I am to expect people to listen? Why does any of this matter anyways? The industry is broken.”
I even stopped calling myself “a musician.”
Then.. the writer's block set in. The smallest musical mistake felt like a death.
It took a traumatic experience and a mystery illness for me to face the truth: I had completely lost faith in my creative instincts. The inner compass that informed me who I was as an artist, had been lost.
I no longer believed my music mattered. My sense of self-worth was fragile, at best.
It was in this rock bottom moment, barely able to get out of bed, that I discovered this truth:
Owning your soul sound is the only thing you must do to make a rewarding living as an artist.
So I went to work to find, develop and own my soul sound.
And as I did...
My voice healed me: physically, emotionally, mentally, creatively.
… and more results started flooding in...
🌹 After years of writer's block, I created several bodies of work aligned with my soul sound and spiritual mission.
🌹 I raised 7K on Kickstarter with a mailing list of 150 to make an album.
🌹 I found my dream producer after years of struggling with collaborators who never got my vision or respected my authority.
🌹 I stopped taking the bar gigs and instead, partnered with my audience to curate impactful concerts.
🌹 I saw rapid, grassroots audience growth and income through these shows - to this day, 75% - 95% of concert attendees purchase my CDs at every show (in an age when the music industry says CDs are dead).
🌹 I sold out every spot in my violin & voice teaching studio in just 1 month, in a new city, after years of struggling to have enough students and gigs to make ends meet.
Over the past 10 years I’ve become an expert at owning my soul sound.
And as a result of my own healing and career breakthroughs, I have had the privilege to help hundreds of young people find their voice and deal with body image, bullying and depression through my 8 years of experience teaching violin and voice lessons and leading chorus, band, songwriting and meditation classes in schools.
Through She Sings Out Loud’s programs, I’ve taught hundreds of women around the world to find, develop and own their soul sound, magnetize their audience, and launch their careers.
This is why I created Soul Sound Academy
In Soul Sound Academy you will magnetize your soul mate audience and launch your career as an awakened artist by creating, releasing and monetizing your soul sound offering.
Click here to join the Soul Sound Academy waitlist
More about me:
I am a vocalist, singer, violinist live looping artists. You can check out my music here! I’ve been performing since I was 7 years old and have been a full-time performer, touring artist and music educator for 10 years. I have a B.A in music from Naropa University where I focused on the Estill Voice method, and avant guard improvisation, composition and arranging. To date, I’ve released two albums of my own music and am working on my third. I am also trained in personal coaching, meditation instruction, alexander technique and energy healing. I am a student of Tibetan Buddhism and Jewish Renewal and value ALL spiritual traditions, including connection to nature, the cosmos, the universe. I believe our spiritual paths (in whatever form that takes) and relationship with our body are vital in developing our free, joyful, authentic creative expression.
I am on a mission to help us all form deeper connections with one another beyond differences, wake up to our true nature and be fully expressed human beings who live in harmony and peace. I am passionate about feminine wisdom and spirituality and how we can learn to honor “being” over “doing,” trusting our intuition, compassionate hearts, receptivity, creativity and our body’s wisdom as primary means for connection and self-expression.
I am fiercely committed to my own self-growth, continuing to inquire, discover and integrate what it is to be a woman and live from feminine wisdom as an artist, spiritual seeker, and social activist amidst the world challenges of today. I believe we are in this inquiry together and she sings out loud is a place to foster conversation, curiosity and creativity as we all learn to live more fully expressed transformative lives.