EMMY The Great's gig at Fibbers tonight is a "lovely show for York with a truly international performer destined for even bigger things".

So says Fibbers boss Tim Hornsby, in praise of Emma-Lee Moss, who has collaborated in the past with Fatboy Slim, Kate Nash, Dev Hynes, Gabriel Bruce and Noah & the Whale and recorded the Christmas album This Is Christmas with Ash's Tim Wheeler in 2011.

Born in Honk Kong to an English father and a Chinese mother, Emmy has released three solo albums, 2009's First Love, 2011's Virtie and this year's Second Love.

Made with myriad musical friends and issued on Bella Union in the spring, Second Love echoes her debut in more than its title. Her storytelling, her emotional expression, her need to question our relationships with each other, with technology and with where we live, have all ripened.

Emmy already had a finely tuned radar to spot a melody and to locate the sweetspot for making the heart leap, while her moves from London to Los Angeles and now New York have asked her to work out her place in the world. "We're going to need music and we're going to need love," she decided.

In 2013 she performed at the largest Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia, in London’s Trafalgar Square, singing in English, Cantonese and Mandarin to an estimated TV audience of 600 million people.

In her charity work, Emmy been an ambassador for Wateraid, Strummerville and Billy Bragg’s prison based music charity.

Tickets are on sale at fibbers.co.uk and on the door from 7.30pm.