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Emily Drennan
vocalist

      Originally from Oklahoma, Emily Drennan has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Radio City Music Hall. She was seen as “Mezzo” in the Lucille Lortel Award-winning a cappella Off-Broadway show Voca People and in its Israel, Japan, and Dubai tours, as well as on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She has appeared on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice singing alongside Cyndi Lauper and appeared in the NBC, PBS, and Netflix specials of The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, where she was a featured soloist. She was a part of the Drama Desk Award-winning Off-Broadway a cappella show Toxic Audio and also performed in its Las Vegas companies at The Luxor and Planet Hollywood.
      As a guest soloist with orchestras, she has shared the stage with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and The Florida Orchestra, among others. As a National Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she was celebrated at the White House with the President of the United States, culminating with a performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
      Drennan is a published ASCAP and Recording Academy producer, lyricist, composer, and recording artist for TV and film. She is also a studio singer and voice-over artist in English and Spanish. Her double-disc album Two-Way Street encompasses pop and jazz: A Mother Daughter Christmas, which also features her mother, composer Patti Drennan, won the International Music and Entertainment Association's award as Holiday Album of the Year. She is also a New Yorl City Marathon finisher and The Price is Right winner.