TOVI is the synth-rock project of Red Deer, Alberta-born, Toronto-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Rebecca Emms. With a background in classical piano/violin and jazz guitar, Emms has carved a style all her own in the Canadian indie music scene, described as “noirish, melancholic pop music powered by big hip-hop drums” (Ian Steaman, CBC Music). Evoking the ethereal melancholia of Portishead to Lana Del Rey, and dark playfulness of Gorillaz, TOVI’s production style will draw you in, and her clever songwriting will keep you hooked.

TOVI’s debut full-length album I Keep Floating Away (self-released, 2022) was produced & mixed by Josh Korody and mastered by Jesse F Keeler (MSTRKRFT, Death From Above 1979). In 2020 she collaborated with Japanese Grammy-nominated producer starRo on a single “Ceiling”, which was featured in a national Sapporo beer ad campaign.

Her debut EP Midnight Hum (2018), earned her a Western Canadian Music Award nomination. Much of TOVI’s music has been featured in Exclaim, Dominionated, Cups N Cakes, Indie88, and played on CBC radio, Antena 3 (Portugal) and has charted on campus radio across Canada.

One of TOVI’s most recent singles “More For Me” (2024), laden with jazz saxophone and 90’s hiphop influence, has gained serious traction on SiriusXM’s The Verge.