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Ep 278 | The Next Adele, Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Eilish?! | Emma Nissen | The Glenn Beck Podcast
14 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What inspired Emma Nissen's musical journey?
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Chapter 2: How did a vocal cord injury change Emma's life?
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Thoughts are just thoughts. They're never true. Unless they're a fact. Facts are true. But thoughts, they're made up.
Music is different than the spoken word or painting or anything else. It's just different.
It speaks right directly to the soul. So if you're making up that you're ugly and you're making up that you're beautiful, choose the one that moves you forward, then hinders you.
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Chapter 3: What does Emma think is missing in contemporary Christian music?
I know. I was seriously spiritually swole after that.
Ready? I have done I've done interviews and met people that are like my biggest heroes in music Elton John Billy Joel BB King and I swore I'm not gonna meet people I really really like anymore because Does it ruin the magic? Yeah. B.B. King hit on my wife. No. And I was like, no, B.B., no. Didn't really pay attention to me. He was just like, come on over here and sit on B.B. 's lap.
And we've spent a couple of hours together and you are, you're wonderful. Thanks.
Chapter 4: How does Emma define beauty and self-acceptance?
You're really wonderful.
I appreciate it.
Likewise. I discovered you recently. eight months ago.
That long ago, really?
Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Six months, well, I don't know, whatever.
Time goes by fast.
Yeah, and... I saw you because you were someplace and you were just riffing on the Hammond B3 and you were singing Gotta Have Faith.
Oh yeah.
And you didn't sing the whole song. And I saw that and I was like, oh my gosh, who is this person? And I listened to you. And when I got there and started going through music, the first thing I heard, I don't remember what it was, but I thought, oh, she sounds like Adele. Then I listened to the next song and I went, no, she sounds like Billie Eilish.
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Chapter 5: What unique musical influences shape Emma's sound?
Well, thanks.
Tell me your story. First of all, play Breathe.
The whole song.
If you want to. I've got the time.
Of course. We'll start with a banger. Yeah. That's, I mean, first of all, thank you for saying that. Because, you know, it was interesting when I was putting together the album, I was listening to all of them trying to come up with the order. And I was like... I had written them pretty much within one year of it. But when I was producing them, I produced them with about three different producers.
And I felt like it all just kind of sounded different.
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Chapter 6: How does Emma describe her songwriting process?
Like one was very much gospel inspired and one was more poppy. One was clearly more jazzy. But I think I settled more on like, oh, it's okay for it to be diverse. It's more like a bouquet, you know, because you don't want just something. Me personally, I don't care for a bouquet of just roses. I like flowers. Lots of wildflowers. So I appreciate it.
And I feel like, you know, people, music has kind of changed in that it can be more than one thing. And that's kind of where we landed with Jesus and jazz, that it's not just one thing. So this is prayer request. Breathe. I breathe.
Fill up my lungs. I breathe.
Chapter 7: What themes does Emma explore in her new album?
The warmth of the sun I breathe Because it'll be guiding when I breathe And I see so many holding on, I believe That when kingdom comes I'll be Completely overcome and free
Feels like I'm drowning when it's me, my thoughts and I Just like Sinatra said, I guess I hang my tears out to dry Gaze, I never take it, never gonna have to say you're by my side Just like the queen of soul, I say a little prayer and on her comes a sigh And I breathe, breathe, breathe Breathe, breathe There's some sort of peace that comes when no one got any son.
I look into a face filled with familiarity and let the good air fill my lungs. There's some sort of peace that comes when I get someone to watch over me. He's my Lord, my God, my Savior, my King and my remedy. And I breathe. Feels like I'm down And I, just like Sinatra said, I guess I had my tea years out to dry. Guess I never took into account I had to see you by my side.
Just like the queen of soul, I'll say a little prayer and on I comes a sigh and I pray, pray. I breathe Feel like my lungs I breathe The warmth of the sun I breathe Because Oh there we got you one
Where does that come from?
It's a conglomeration of a lot of things.
I mean, you look like you could be in ABBA.
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Chapter 8: How does Emma connect her music to spirituality and faith?
know what I mean? And then that comes out of you. It's, it's amazing.
Well, thanks. Ironically, I don't breathe at all during that song. I find myself gasping. I'm like, but, um, I heard that.
I don't think I've ever, I've heard people try to sound like Ella Fitzgerald, but I don't think I've ever heard anybody naturally sound like Ella Fitzgerald. There's parts of that that sound positively. How much of a role did she play in your life?
extremely central to so much of my musicality now. Even if what I do isn't strictly jazz, though it is like almost this closeted part of me that I don't get to do as often as I would like. But I went through a really heavy phase in high school of just listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra like every day. And it was kind of just my... Yeah, she's my muse, so.
Can I ask you? Yeah. I heard that you are doing a tribute to Ella at the Ella Fitzgerald Theater?
Yes, yes.
What is that like to be asked?
I don't know if I fully digested it. I, it's like some girls, they wait and they plan and they've got Pinterest boards for their wedding. And that is just like the peak of their existence. But this, when Tom, my manager told me about it, I was like, Tom, well, you're being way too nonchalant about this.
This is like the peak of this is, this is the best thing I'm ever going to be asked to do because Ella Fitzgerald's everything to me. So, um, I'm just so excited. And she like, well, To give some background of my ear training, and it's Ella Fitzgerald largely, but before that, it was Gershwin and Debussy and Chopin and all of these classical, not that I played, but I have four older brothers.
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