Supply: Courtesy / Femme It Ahead
Multi-format music and leisure firm Femme It Ahead (FIF) declares its newest mentorship endeavors with the launch of “MUSE” (Musicians Uplifting Stars On a regular basis). Learn extra about their new mentorship program created to information rising feminine artists and creatives in music.
The Femme It Ahead platform continues its’ mission to rejoice, educate, empower and mentor feminine visionaries. The corporate has expanded its attain with the newest launch of MUSE, which is a brand new Mentorship Program particularly created to information and advise rising feminine artists and creatives within the music trade.
Below the course of FIF’s Founder and President, Reside Nation Associate Heather Lowery, “MUSE” will serve the artistic facet of the enterprise and complement FIF’s current Subsequent Gem Femme mentorship program, which affords a mentorship observe for rising girls of coloration executives and entrepreneurs to search out area within the leisure trade.
MUSE is a multi-pronged initiative that may deliver collectively girls throughout totally different disciplines inside the music trade to encourage, empower, and mentor each other, uplift their communities, and generate new music.
“I’ve made it my mission to pave the way in which for future generations of ladies to be outfitted with the instruments they should sit at any desk,” says FIF’s President and Founder, Heather Lowery. “MUSE has lived in my coronary heart for the final 3 years, and I’m honored to launch it into actuality as a high-powered program to fight the inequities, disparities, and disturbing statistics across the historic underrepresentation of ladies within the music trade, particularly girls of coloration.”
Current findings from USC Annenberg’s “Inclusion Initiative,” in collaboration with Spotify, make clear some regarding statistics on girls within the music trade. The examine reveals {that a} mere 6.5 % of producers are girls, with solely 19 out of 1,972 producing credit going to girls of coloration. Moreover, lower than 1 % of 1,200 common songs have girls as the only songwriters.
Regardless of these staggering numbers, there’s a constructive development: in 2023, 40.6 % of solo or featured artists have been girls, a notable improve from 2022’s 34.8 %, although the change from 2012 (35.8 %) was simply shy of significance at 0.2 %.
As for engineers, just one.9 % of credited engineers on common songs being girls or non-binary people, as highlighted within the “Misplaced In The Combine,” Repair The Combine Annual Report from April 2023.
These findings emphasize why the music trade wants initiatives like MUSE to assist foster extra pathways for artists and creatives to thrive, innovate, and go away an indelible mark on the trade.
Lowery recruited music trade powerhouses Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, and Teyana Taylor as MUSE advisors. They may every take part in a moderated dialog and distinctive Q&A programming, led by Lowery, to function an open discussion board for the creatives within the MUSE program to obtain recommendation and anecdotes to light up new profession paths.
“Heather’s MUSE is creating a robust circle of ladies from totally different backgrounds and throughout a number of generations,” Erykah Badu stated. “I’m selecting to share my legacy by changing into a MUSE advisor to encourage and educate this circle and assist the following technology develop into an enchancment on the design that precedes them.”
Along with these advisors, a bench of award-winning artists and creatives will function hands-on mentors together with producer and songwriter duo Nova Wav, songwriter and artist Nija, songwriter and artist Jozzy, and 4x Grammy-winning engineer Ann Mincieli. Rapper Rapsody is paired with Brittany Carter, Trina is paired with Kaliii, and Amber Riley is paired with Jane Handcock below the MUSE mentorship umbrella.
As well as, music from FIF’s MUSE Labs can be included in FIF’s second Large Femme Vitality music compilation album slated for late 2024.
Femme It Ahead is honored to announce 2024’s inaugural MUSE checklist.
Study extra about MUSE right here.
