Career
Her music is a mix of soul, Rhythm & Blues, jazz, blues and funk. Early career
In early 2005, Emi Tawata traveled to Vancouver to study language. Upon returning to Japan in 2006 she started composing her own songs, debuting them in a small live house in Okinawa.
This gave her the opportunity to meet Japanese (Jazz) producers like Coldfeet and Ryota Nozaki (Jazztronik) and led to the release of her debut single Negai Number Sora.
Negai Number Sora peaked at the #1 spot on the Okinawa Indies chart, under name タワタエミ (Tawata Emi). The track was later released on her debut mini-album Infinity under a newly formed label named Techesko.
The mini-album charted at the #110 spot on the Oricon chart. Major label debut and beyond(2008 - 2010)
A few months after the release of ∞infinity∞ she released another mini-album named Love&Peace which included a collaboration with DJ Kawasaki titled Into You.
Shortly after her second mini-album plans were made for her tour Emi Tawata & The Soul Infinity: Sweet Soul Tour 2009 During her tour, on 18 March 2009, Emi released her 3rd mini-album Sweet Soul Love.
Along with this mini-album came a collaboration with the popular apparel brand Soulsmania. On 12 May 2009, her official website announced Emi"s first Maxi-single Toki no Sora would be released on the 24th of June. The leading song is an ending song from the television quiz show Sekai fushigi hakken and theme song for the roadshow movie Chikujou se Yo.
On 30 June it was announced that Emi would be featured in two songs from the popular techno twins Ryukuydisko, Starlight Waltz feat.
多和田えみ and てぃんさぐぬ花 feat. 多和田えみ. Both songs are included on the album Pleasure.
On 22 August 2009 Emi announced on her blog that she would release her first full-length album Sings along with a single Namida no Oto on the 4th of November. She supported the releases with a tour titled Emi Tawata & The Soul Infinity: Sings of Souls live 2010"" On 23 January 2010, Emi announced a new single release for 23 March named Lovely Day.
After a long period of touring through Japan came the release of a live album and Digital Video Disc (Sings Of Souls Live 2010) released on 23 June.
Hiatus, label transfer and new mini-album
After being on a unannounced hiatus for 1 year, Emi"s official website announced that she would be the singer during the Romeo&Julia play that would tour through Japan. On 14 July 2012 she announced that there will be a new mini-album released on 26 September 2012 named "Sing You". This would be the first album to be released under the label Sony Music Entertainment.
In the announcement she confessed that the new songs "were a new challenge for her".