Self-taught engineer, producer, and rapper Gama was originally inspired to get into music by fellow Houston artists Cumbia Kings. At age 15 he scraped enough money together to buy a used Macbook and start learning how to make beats. Lyrics became an outlet for his emotions, processing the poverty and violence normalized around him. When […]
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Transonic merges eclectic backgrounds to create a sound that blends hip-hop, R&B, and soulful jazz elements. Korbin’s journey from Virginia’s rhythms, through military experience, to music production training shapes his powerful compositions. Meysha’s Ohio roots and the PNW’s cultural vibrancy fuel their insightful songwriting and performances rooted in a transmasculine perspective. Their collaboration is a […]
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Rasheena Fountain’s work is multidimensional. She grew up playing southern gospel and blues on lead guitar in church. You can catch her spitting a verse on an experimental beat she has produced and performed under her hip hop alias. You might find her riffing over a slow Mississippi delta blues bassline. For two decades, she […]
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Greg Kramer is a veteran of the Seattle music scene. Greg has performed, toured and recorded with countless groups including True Loves, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Sol, and Wheedle’s Groove. Greg released his first solo project, “Tell Me EP” in 2020, which has garnered much acclaim and over 3 million streams. Greg’s self produced solo […]
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Positively Positive (they/them) is a multifaceted artist and an African-American/black queer, transgender, nonbinary, HIV positive at birth educator, spoken word artist, and a hip hop emcee who is a survivor of violence. Positively Positive’s artistic journey is a testament to resilience. They hold a graduate certificate in Environmental Education from the University of Washington’s Islandwood enriching […]
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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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