Emma Cantons was born in 1962 in London. She has worked as a musician as a singer song writer performing comedy cabaret, as a music teacher working with mainstream and special needs children and, most recently as singer/keyboard player with her Jazz trio, the imaginatively named "Emma Cantons Trio'. She has recorded two albums, 'Songs of Experience' and 'Songs My Father Taught Me'. She has two adult children and lives in South London with the artist Victoria Cantons, Ellie and Panda the cat.