Emjay - In Your Arms (1995)

Emjay was French-Canadian, Ottawa based singer Marie-Josée Riel. As a teen, she joined group Micheal B & The Power as a back-up vocalist. In 1993, she won an American Guild Award (whatever THAT is!) as best Pop Solo Artist. Soon after she released her first single "Sound Of My Heartbeat", which became a Canadian dance hit. She was quite successful in Canada after that with several singles, including remakes of Company B's "Fascinated" and Exposé's "Point Of No Return". Her biggest hit was the title track to her album. But full on pop fame eluded her. Perhaps it was because the genre of music she specialized in, euro-house, quickly fell out of favour. But the album is solid, produced by many of the same crew involved in previous postee Solina's album. The track and single "Flying To The Moon" has special bittersweet meaning to me, as it was the song playing at full volume when I was leaving a party while having my very worst 'trip'. It was my salvation song! Anyway, she recorded several other songs for a second album that was never released, with the singles "Over And Over" and "We All Need Love". She has practically disappeared since, though there is a Myspace page dedicated to her, so a fanbase still exists, craving new music from a promising singer.

UPDATE:  Emjay is alive and well!  I saw her recently (early 2013) in concert and she was FANTASTIC!  Hope she releases some new material soon.

Video for In Your Arms

Live performance of Flying To The Moon on Electric Circus

Download In Your Arms

1		Sound Of My Heartbeat
2		In Your Arms
3		Flying To The Moon
4		Bring Me
5		Summertime
6		So Far Away
7		Be My Man
8		Fascinated
9		You Say Love
10		Every Night
11		Falling In Love
12		Sing It
13		Point Of No Return
14		Fascinated (Underground Mix)