Emmanuelle Saliba is a Senior Editor of the social newsgathering team at NBC News. ^[1]She is also famous for co-founding Ignite the Sound. ^[1]

Saliba started her professional career working at *Billboard *. Starting in May 2011, she covered the business side of the entertainment industry. ^[1]She emphasized on EDM and Brazilian music during the later part of her stint there. ^[4]

Saliba grew up with an English and French background.

She went to Lycée Français de New York, a K-12 school in Manhattan. ^[1]

She studied abroad in 2010 at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, a university in Florianópolis, Brazil, where she learned to speak Portuguese. ^[1]

Saliba now speaks four languages: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. ^[1]