by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 31, 2018
Photo via FACT magazine Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic songwriter, producer, and DJ. Her career, which has spanned over four decades, has gained her notoriety as an eclectic musician with a range of influences. Known for her distinctive boundary-breaking style and unique sound, Björk’s musical persona isn’t something you can find anywhere else. Björk’s musical…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 29, 2018
Maya Jane Coles is a U.K.-based triple threat: audio engineer, producer, and DJ. She makes music under her real name (mostly house), and also plays under the alias Nocturnal Sunshine (dubstep) and collaborates with Lena Cullen to make up the electronic dub duo She is Danger. Coles started off producing in her teens, with mostly…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 22, 2018
Image credits to imdb.com Wendy Melovin and Lisa Coleman are two songwriters that make up the musical duo Wendy & Lisa. They began working together as members of Prince’s band The Revolution, where they worked on the soon-to-be sensation Purple Rain. The two continued working on Prince projects, but reported feeling looked-over: they weren’t getting…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 17, 2018
Marta Salogni is an Italian producer, mixer, and sound engineer. She got her start as a live sound engineer for the independent radio station Radio Onda D’Urto, a liberal Italian channel that brought her to many non-profit leftist gigs around Europe. She then moved to London, where she trained at the Alchmea College of Audio…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 15, 2018
Ebony Oshunrinde, better known by her stagename Wondagurl, has been called Toronto’s production prodigy — she started producing at age 9, won her first production award at age 15, and co-produced a Jay-Z hit when she was still a junior in high school. The rest has been history — after moving from her quiet hometown in Ontario…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 9, 2018
Image: Getty Images, Hinterhaus Productions Right now the music industry is buzzing about the Music Modernization Act, which passed in the House last Wednesday with a unanimous vote. This Act acknowledges the changing face of music, and the need for legal guidelines to change along with it. “Music is no longer written on piano rolls, and our…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 8, 2018
Suzanne Ciani is a legend in the music engineering world, best-known for unparalleled innovation in sound effects and a discography full of mesmerizing, trance-like tracks. Ciani got her start studying classical music and music composition at Wellesley College and U.C. Berkeley, respectively. She went on to study computer generated music at Standford’s Artificial Intelligence Labs,…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on May 1, 2018
Cordell Jackson, often called “Guitar Granny,” was born in Mississippi in 1923. She began performing with her father’s band in the late 30’s, and moved on to writing and recording her own work in the 40’s. During this time, she moved to Memphis and became involved in the city’s sprawling music scene. In 1956, Jackson…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on April 26, 2018
It’s April 26, which means that it’s World Intellectual Property Day; a day devoted to spreading awareness about rights and regulations surrounding intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyright law). It marks the date that the World Intellectual Property Organization Convention was first created in 1970. In the music world, intellectual property rights are all about understanding…
by Bobbi Giel
Posted on April 24, 2018
Shakari Boles, who writes and produces music under the stage-name TRAKGIRL, grew up surrounded by music in the DMV area. She started making music at a young age, and got into production after purchasing her first beat machine in her early teens. TRAKGIRL first broke into the music scene in her sophomore year of college,…