RØRY

RØRY is an English singer and songwriter based in the United Kingdom. She first works as a solo artist under her birth name, Roxanne Emery, and later adopts the name RØRY, which combines the first and last parts of her name while leaving out the middle section as a reference to time lost through addiction and mental health struggles.

Her career begins more than a decade before her breakthrough under the RØRY name, after the death of her mother, when she starts writing and performing as a solo artist. During that period she develops a career in London’s pop industry, writes dance-oriented songs, works with major figures in that scene, and becomes a platinum-selling songwriter. She also faces addiction and, at 34, attends her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

As RØRY, she becomes active in the UK alternative scene. Her debut headline show takes place at London’s Camden Assembly in August 2022. She then draws more than twenty million streams on Spotify and sells out her first UK headline tour within its first week in early 2023. She also presents herself as an advocate against major label capitalism and ageism.

Style and background

Her music is associated with pop rock, pop, alternative pop and alternative rock. The available description identifies her as a female vocalist and places her in the wider sphere of English electronic music and production.

She describes herself as five years sober, and her career is framed by recovery, self-reinvention and the move from her earlier work as Roxanne Emery to the RØRY project.