Avalon Emerson is an American electronic music producer and DJ born in San Francisco and raised in Arizona. She began making electronic music after working as a software developer in San Francisco, where she also DJed and helped organize warehouse parties in the SoMa district before relocating to Berlin in 2014. Her early releases arrived in 2014, followed by later EPs and edits that built her profile in underground dance music. Emerson is known for DJ sets that move across house, techno, new wave, disco, and rave influences, and for performances at clubs such as Berghain and festivals including Coachella, Sónar, Primavera Sound, and Pitchfork Music Festival. In 2023 she released her first full-length album with Avalon Emerson & the Charm, extending her work beyond DJing into indie-oriented songwriting and live-band performance.