Emanuel

Biography

Emanuel Assefa, credited as Emanuel, is a Canadian R&B singer, whose debut EP Alt Therapy Session 1: Disillusion was a Juno Award nominee for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. Assefa was born and raised in London, Ontario, the son of parents from Ethiopia who came to Canada as refugees in the 1970s. His first single, "Need You", was released in April 2020, and was promoted in part with a music video compiled from the responses to actor Idris Elba's social media request for pictorial and video collages of the things that were helping people to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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