For a woman who has grown up near the "beach, surf and sea" on her native Gold Coast, EMILY SCOTT could be classified as the typical Australian sex symbol export. Emily was crowned as the "Sexiest Aussie Babe" by FHM Australia in February 2007, has appeared in Robbie Williams' infamous Rock DJ video and was the face of Lipton Ice Tea for a period as well as being a famous swimsuit model for magazines like Playboy and Maxim. It seemed there was no sex pot this woman did not have her fingers in. "I've always been a creative person," she says. "When you're like that you can't help but pursue different interests."
Fortunately Emily has many other talents up her sleeve, aside from being a sex icon -besides being a Design graduate and a former Olympic gymnast, Emily now is an up and coming tough house DJ. Emily still finds it difficult, though, to separate the stigma of her modelling career from her music. "Music and modelling are two separate parts of my life, but the press doesn't see it that way," she says. "I don't have a choice but now I just take everything with a grain of salt. I now have more time to dedicate myself to my music and I want to make that my focus."
The seed of musical awareness was spawned when Emily worked on the Gold Coast, where she lived before moving to London, when her focus was still on modelling. "I started getting into DJing when doing lighting a club on the Gold Coast," she recalls. "One of my friends taught me to beat mix on vinyl. I didn't get too serious about it until I moved to England and that was when I first started my DJ career."
Emily has recently relocated back to Sydney and is "always listening, buying and editing music." She's now putting a greater emphasis on avidly "always learning" music and production. "In the future," Emily describes, "I want to invest more time in music. I want to be able to expand my knowledge and skills and make some tracks."
Emily's music style is heavily influenced by many different DJs but her attitude is to "keep my music style as alive, fresh and fun as possible." Emily explains that "I try to make music as something that makes people feel 'up.' I don't like monotony, so I mix a lot of different genres together-from techno, house to electro-house."
Emily is now on a national tour of Australia and is very excited at being able to bring the party to the people. "For this tour I've been going around pretty much everywhere... I'll be going to Indonesia next month on tour there. The tour doesn't have a name yet, but as long as I'm getting out there and playing, I'm happy." There is no doubt this tour will be both a musical and visual feat, judging from the positive feedback of Emily Scott's ever-expanding fanbase.
