Emilie & Ogden

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Emilie & Ogden
Birth nameEmilie Kahn
Born Montreal, Quebec
Genres
Instruments
  • Harp
  • Vocals
Years active2013–present
Labels Secret City Records

Emilie & Ogden is the former stage name of Canadian musician Emilie Kahn. In 2019, Kahn ceased performing under the name Emilie & Ogden and began performing as Emilie Kahn.

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Early life

Kahn was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. [1] She began writing songs on the piano and guitar at age 14. [2] Kahn originally played the flute and enrolled in CÉGEP to study classical music. [3] [4] After seeing a harpist, Sarah Pagé, accompanying the choir she was performing with at Vanier College, she began taking private harp lessons. [2]

Career

Kahn's Lyon & Healy-made lever harp is from the Ogden range, hence the name Emilie & Ogden. [1] [5]

Emilie & Ogden released a mini-album in 2013. [6] In June 2015, Emilie & Ogden was signed to Secret City Records. [7] In July 2015, their stripped-down harp cover of Taylor Swift's "Style" went viral. [8] [9] [3] The video of the cover was re-tweeted by Swift herself and garnered over 300,000 views. [4] Secret City released Emilie & Ogden's debut record, 10,000, later that year. [1]

In 2019, Khan began releasing music as Emilie Khan. [5] Explaining the change, she told the Montreal Gazette , "I was kind of tired of being the harp girl." [10] Her first album under the new name was 2019's Outro. [11] Her album Maybe was released on Secret City Records in 2023. [12]

Discography

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