Emma-Louise Nelson or "Soulful Emma-Louise (S.E.L)" as she is known in the industry, is a vocal specialist, music education and industry professional holding extensive experience in these fields. She has achieved a BA (Hons) degree in Music and a PGCert in Music Education, as well as a number of other creative industry based qualifications which, when consolidated, translate to her being able to teach people of all ages and abilities, as well as being able fuse both industry and education to teach both curriculum and key industry based transferrable skills and knowledge.
Emma-Louise is a passionate about both music education and the music industry and has made it her mission to bring UK soul ‘"back to its grassroots" and, through contemporary musicality, business, artistic precision and hypnotic vocal arrangement, she has firmly secured her reputation within the UK soul scene as doing just that.
Emma-Louise, a north London native, is a classically trained musician that started her career within the UK reggae industry as a backing vocalist and arranger, then was quickly picked up by the one and only Jazzie B, whereby she was asked to join British soul legends Soul II Soul, both as a lead and backing vocalist. She toured the world as part of the collective for over a decade.
Learning from the best, she signed her first record deal in 2009, but realised the label life was not for her. She then passionately learned every aspect of the music business, built up a team that shared the same passion for UK Soul music and re-launched herself as an independent artist in 2015 with the anthem ‘Elevation’. This would ultimately be the pivotal moment in her music career.
Emma has worked with the likes of DJ Spen, Mica Paris, Booker T, SOS Band and Alicia Keys, to name a few. With worldwide tours and admiration from the likes of Tony Blackburn, Gordon Mac and Calvin Francis, she also has three top ten hits both in the UK and USA. Soulful Emma-Louise’s highly anticipated album ‘Loc’d in Consciousness’ was released April 2021 and went straight in at No1 in the UK Soul charts.
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Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Music
- PGCert Music Education
- Practice-based learning for the creative and cultural industries: cultural learning, practice-based learning for the creative and cultural industries: creative business development and support
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Memberships
Clock Your Skills
Teaching
All levels of music education, from nursery, throughout all curriculum key stages, further education, higher education to industry mentoring and guidance. I pride myself in being able to get to know my students and ensure all have access to the same level of learning, contextualised for the individual, removing barriers.
