Emily Middlemas, known professionally as ili, is a Scottish singer-songwriter. In 2016, she finished in fourth place in the thirteenth series of The X Factor. She also competed in the eleventh series of the programme, and reached judges' houses, but failed to reach the live shows.

She has gone onto release an EP in 2019 called Changes which has amassed 400k streams on spotify, the most streamed song being a little bit. Ili also uploads a lot of covers and original songs onto her YouTube Channel.