Emily Bindiger

Emily Bindiger, born May 10, 1955, is an American singer and performer whose career spans Broadway, television, film, and recorded music. A member of the a cappella group the Accidentals, she is married to musician Robbie Kondor and resides in North Salem, New York.

Bindiger made her Broadway appearances between 1975 and 1977, with credits including Hair and Shenandoah. In 2015, she returned to Broadway as an ensemble member for the presentation of the Bombshell musical. Earlier in her career, she released her debut album, Emily, in 1972 at the age of sixteen, and later issued the single "Baby It's You" on Handshake Records in 1981.

Her television work includes playing the role of Francine on the 1980s children's series The Great Space Coaster, where she both acted and performed songs. She also recorded a theme song for the children's television series The Baby-Sitters Club and contributed vocal work to sketch segments for Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Drew Carey Show.

Bindiger's voice appears on numerous film soundtracks, among them The Stepford Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Donnie Brasco, The Hudsucker Proxy, Michael Collins, and The Tune, as well as the soap opera One Life to Live. She has performed and recorded alongside artists including Leonard Cohen, Buster Poindexter, Oscar Brand, Neil Sedaka, Ben Vereen, Black 47, Deb Lyons, Laurie Beechman, Christine Lavin, Yuri Kasahara, and Patti Austin.

Bindiger has an extensive body of work in anime music. She recorded with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno for the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, contributing the tracks "Adieu" and "Flying Teapot." Her collaboration with composer Yuki Kajiura includes ten songs for the anime series .hack//Sign, one song for Pandora Hearts, and six songs for Kajiura's solo album Fiction, three of which originated in .hack//Sign and three of which were newly recorded. She also served as Kajiura's featured vocalist during the Anime Expo 2003 convention in California. Additional anime credits include a song for the Flash anime Xenosaga - A Missing Year and two songs, "forest" and "I reach for the sun," for El Cazador de la Bruja. Her performance of "Every Time You Kissed Me" for Kajiura's Pandora Hearts was included on that series' second original soundtrack, released by JVC Music in Japan.