If we had known about Emilie Kahn a few month’s ago, we surely would have included her in our July-August feature article See and Be Seen, about harpists who have become hits on YouTube. Since posting her YouTube performance covering Taylor Swift’s “Style” on July 27, Khan has already racked up over 25,000 views while also grabbing the attention of mainstream media.
Billboard described Kahn’s voice as “hauntingly beautiful”; Time declared her performance “extremely soothing”; and the blog Slate called her rendition “surprisingly beautiful.”
Khan performs the entire song acoustically using her Lyon & Healy Ogden lever harp, hence her band name Emilie & Ogden. An album is due out October 2. See emilieandogden.com or her Facebook page for more info and tour dates.
