Rydberg's father is the Ethiopian singer
Teshome Mitiku. Her mother, Malena Rydberg, is Swedish. As a student she attended the
Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. Rydberg was discovered in 1996 by Lars Anderson, son of
ABBA's manager,
Stig Anderson. She used the
mononym of Emilia in the first years of her career, but more recently she has started to perform under the name of Emilia Mitiku, using her father's surname. In 2009, she competed in
Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for
Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "
You're My World". She advanced directly from her heat; however, she placed ninth in the final. She released her album
My World in 2009. Her single "Teardrops" was released to radio stations on 2 June 2009. Her duet with , "Side By Side" (Szerelemre hangolva), was recorded in both
Hungarian and English languages and issued the same year. Emilia recorded a
cover version of
Rihanna's "
We Found Love" for a studio session in Stockholm which was published on YouTube. On 25 June 2012 she released the single "Lost Inside". In 2021, she joined the all-female group, Super Fëmmes, with a line-up consisting of
Therese Grankvist,
Denise Lopez,
Mia Shotte, Josefine Willers and Emilia herself. In April 2022, the band released their debut single, a cover of
Rozalla's 1991 hit "
Everybody's Free". ==Discography==