Athr (pronounced ah-ther) is an audio visual artist based in Seattle, WA. Working at the intersection of music, art, and technology Athr is a social activism empowered music project who makes music to empower marginalized communities. Their 2020 debut album Childhood’s End received critical acclaim from Seattle Met Magazine who described it as “industrial-futurist R&B/hip-hop […]
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Salome MC is an Iranian musician, multimedia artist, writer and educator. She is the first woman rapper/hiphop producer of Iran, where she helped shape the hiphop scene in early 2000’s. In 2010 Salome moved to Japan after being awarded the MEXT scholarship, and received her M.A. in Audiovisual Arts at Tohoku University of Arts and […]
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SassyBlack (Catherine Harris-White) is a Seattle-based vocalist & producer. This Goddess of “electronic psychedelic soul” & “hologram funk” explores sound through deep electronic compositions. Sassy studied under Julian Priester, Jovino Santos Neto, and others at Cornish College of the Arts, graduating in 2008. Since then, Black has traveled the world having performed in Berlin, Barcelona, […]
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Angela Martinez Dy is a poet, spoken word and hip-hop artist who blends commentary, craft and analysis as she grapples with issues of family, community and social justice from the perspective of a second-generation American. Subject matter includes the immigrant experience, current events, and world history as told by a woman of color. Angela Martinez […]
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Damiano Unique, American vocal artist, record producer, and entrepreneur was born Damiano Unique Austin. Growing up in an economically troubled & disadvantaged neighborhood, Damiano was attracted to the arts at any early age. In the seventh grade she became a member of her middle school marching band and participated six consecutive years and later went […]
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Stephon Dorsey writes and performs original R&B/soul music under the name Goodsteph. Artist Support Program 2016: Complete production of Mela.nin, an R&B/soul mixtape that chronicles life as a man of color in modern day America.
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