![]() ![]() “My mom helps me with writing and getting ready for shows. Randall plays bass and tours with Emi to her various gigs across the state of Tennessee. Emi’s grandmother, Patsy Hamilton, was also highly regarded in her community as a lovely gospel singer who passed along her musical talents to her son, Randall Hamilton, Emi’s father. Her great-grandmother Wanda was a regular on Knoxville’s Midday Merry-Go-Round, a popular mountain music show on radio station WNOX, and earned a reputation as a consummate singer and entertainer who could turn on the Southern charm at a moment’s notice, a trait Emi has clearly learned to her advantage. Music has been in Emi’s bloodline for a least three generations. In 2014, Emi will release Black Sunday ‘35, a compilation of 16 original songs written by an old soul trapped in a young body with a sound that seems to tell the world that she’s already gotten life figured out. And while other kids are still working on their coloring books and puzzles, this entertainer is looking forward to a new album due out this year. ![]() When it comes to music, most kids in elementary school are only exposed to what their parents play on the ride to school, what big brother or sister play on their headphones, or the occasional movie soundtrack, but the up and coming child sensation from Madisonville, Tenn., Emi Sunshine, has been fortunate enough to know traditional country and gospel music as it was played and sung in her home for generations. There are a few things, though, you’ve mastered by that age, like the art of coloring in between the lines, knowing your multiplication tables, maybe you’ve even had a taste of geometry. When you’re only nine years old, the world seems like a pretty big place with lots of rules and adults running the show. ![]()
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