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FUNDED PROJECTS

Around 150 funded musicians and music projects in Berlin are supported by the Musicboard annually through its Scholarships and Residencies, Support Tour Funding as well as the funding programmes Karrieresprungbrett Berlin, Pop im Kiez and Festival Funding. You can view all of the projects funded thus far by Musicboard Berlin here.
 
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ILYICH

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine. Augmenting music performances with performance art, ILYICH pilots full sound of electronic music through ...

Moscoman

The works of Moscoman (or Mosco for short), the producer of numerous underground hits on ESP Institute, Correspondant, I’m a Cliche and Eskimo Rec, ...

A Girl Called Frank

Luisa Kutza aka A Girl Called Frank learned one lesson early on: life can be hard, but it is always beautiful. With a colonel’s ...

Juno Francis

Juno Francis is the supposed »lovechild of a 60s gentleman and an 80s lady,« and as plausible as that sounds, it also means that ...

ANDRRA

Berlin based singer-songwriter and film producer, ANDRRA alias Fatime Kosumi was born in Rosenheim, as the daughter of Kosovar Albanian parents. She released the ...

Aldarwish

Hani Alsawah aka Aldarwish is a prominent Syrian Arab rapper and producer who has two albums, more than 50 singles, 90 concerts and three ...

Mona Yim

Mona Yim is a Chinese-German artist, producer, DJ and vocalist currently based in Berlin. Her music can be described as emotive electronica with elements ...

noiseLab

For the second time, noiseLab was taking over Teufelsberg in 2019. Artists had been invited to react and respond to the specifics of the ...

Linda Finny

Linda Finny is a Berlin newcomer who’s already perfected an infectiously energetic sound, managing to be both atmospheric and punk. She is currently working ...

ANNAVR

Berlin based ANNAVR is a pianist, producer and singer shrugging off the clichés of the music industry. Growing up in rural and coastal post-socialist ...

Die Wilde Jagd

Die Wilde Jagd (›The Wild Hunt‹) is a project of Berlin-based musician Sebastian Lee Philipp in collaboration with co-producer Ralf Beck and several guest ...

James Chatburn

James Chatburn is a Berlin-based Australian soul singer, songwriter and producer. He has combined influences from divided musical worlds to create something that does ...

BERvokal – A Cappella Pop Festival

BERvokal is hosting its fifth edition in 2018. From September 14th to 16th, the international acapella pop festival invites participants and listeners interested in ...

Juno Lee

Panic attacks at the laundromat, the fake smile of a receptionist, queer dates –
 Juno Lee draws the inspiration for her lyrics mainly from ...

Valeria Frattini

Valeria Frattini is an Italian singer-songwriter living in Berlin. As half German and half Italian and with time spent abroad in the US, her ...

Jamila Al-Yousef

During the lockdown summer of 2020, the last planes from Tegel Airport hover close over the small Berlin island of Valentinswerder as singer, curator ...

10 Jahre KAOS

KAOS turns ten in 2023! Over the past few years, KAOS has offered talented artists and creators a space where they can work, grow, ...

Barbiche On Air

It’s common knowledge that female musicians often receive too little attention and that festivals book far fewer female acts than male acts. The concert ...

Maggot Heart

Maggot Heart is the brainchild of the guitarist, singer and songwriter Linnéa Olsson. Taking cues from the rhythmic gloom of Killing Joke, the aggressive ...

Aron & The Jeri Jeri Band

During the fall of 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon meets Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck in his Berlin studio. From this ...

LIE NING

Dream and reality, desire, compulsion and knowledge form the basis of human passion. We move in the spaces in between, constantly changing perspectives. LIE ...

Chabezo

For over 20 years, singer, rapper and freestyle MC Chabezo was the frontman of various group. In 2020, after a long period of musical ...

The FreakOuternational Vinyl Market

The FreakOuternational Vinyl Market is a pop-up radio station, record sale, and live music event. The goal of the monthly series is to support ...

Dmitra

Unexpected calls emerge under, over and between layers of basslines, some thick and some thin. Here a voice answers, there an instrumental sample swings ...

DECOLONOIZE FEST

The Berlin collective DECOLONOIZE has set itself the task of strengthening BIPOC artists from the fields of punk, rock, indie, alternative and traditional music. ...

UCC Harlo

Annie Gårlid is a classically-trained viola player, singer, and writer. She makes music under the name UCC Harlo. Many of her »ecclesiastical-wave« sound projects ...

Why Be

Why Be is a musical project by artist Tobias Lee, made in collaboration with visual artist Daylen Seu. Their work focuses on tracks and ...

Anneli Bentler

Anneli Bentler grew up in Freiburg, Germany, with a classical music education and a passion for composers like Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Steve Reich. ...

Tender Games

Tender Games is the project of German-Jamaican singer and songwriter Ulrich aka HRRSN. Although being something of a late bloomer as far as his ...

Soft Drug

With their neo-R&B, Soft Drug release a world of feelings that otherwise lies dormant in the band members, rarely getting the chance to surface. ...

Badger

In 2017, Max Wiegand’s debut EP was declared »one of the records of the year« by the Zitty editorial team, and many other listeners ...

East Side Music Days

East Side Music Days is Berlin’s first street music festival, which premiered in 2015. This public festival around East Side Park and the Oberbaumbrücke ...

Uo Ray’m

Uo Ray’m’s work focuses on the relationship between sound and memory: our sense of hearing in hyper visual times and our sense of belonging ...

Ghostpoet

Obaro Ejimiwe is a British singer, songwriter and musician better known by his stage name Ghostpoet. After receiving recognition for his first two albums, ...

DASCO

Israeli DJ and producer DASCO has a background every bit as colourful as her music. Born and raised in Tel Aviv and now based ...

Fangirls

A guy, a girl, two guitars with lots of reverb, and punchy beats. Fangirls’ sound is an electrifying symbiosis of grunge, garage, and California ...

J.A.W

J.A.W is a concert series producing a classical spectrum ranging from jazz over hip-hop to house music. The always musically adventurous concert settings deal ...

Luisa Babarro

What Luisa Babarro creates with her cello and her voice are gems in form of songs. Her compositions take the audience on an extraordinary ...

Play Date

For the concert series Play Date, the FELD theater in Schöneberg is applying its expertise in cross-generational work for primarily younger audiences to concerts ...

Bernadette La Hengst

Berlin based Bernadette La Hengst is an electro-pop musician and singer-songwriter with a passion for political and social issues and utopian ideas. In the ...

Danielle de Picciotto

Danielle de Picciotto is a wanderer. She explores the regions between the inner and outer edges of our collective psyche and turns her impressions ...

Digital in Berlin – 10 Years in Sound Festival

Since 2008, Digital in Berlin has been curating, developing, and supporting concerts and festival formats as an independent cultural agency in Berlin and in ...

Kicker Dibs

More than half their lives – that’s how long Kicker Dibs have been making music together. They are more like the family you can ...

VUT Mentoring Programme

The VUT mentoring programme aims to bring experienced industry experts from labels, publishing, distribution, booking and promotion as well as self-promoting artists together with ...

SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS

SOUND(ING) SYSTEMS tells the story of the Cold War continuum starting from the so-called Loudspeaker War and the Studio am Stacheldraht in Berlin. In ...

Martina Stock

Martina Stock’s musical repertoire cannot be clearly assigned to any genre. It includes key influences of neo-classical, ambient and electronic music and combines acoustic ...

Sound & Vision

Since starting in 2010, Sound & Vision has become one of the biggest events at the interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin. Usually, up ...

Graf Fidi

»It’s normal to be different« – Graf Fidi has built a career out of this message. As a rapper, social worker, and speaker, he ...

Ebow

Ebow first came to attention with guerrilla performances in laundromats, supermarkets and demonstrations. Nowadays, the artist, who lives in Vienna and Berlin, performs on ...

Ditty

Ditty is an Indian independent artist and urban ecologist whose music is inspired by the natural world. She started by playing music on the ...

1000 GRAM

This kind of music can only be made by people gathered together by the wind: 1000 Gram is made up of half-Swedish West-Berliner Moritz ...

Trille

Trille has been producing a mix of urban pop and storytelling since 2018, creating his own world somewhere between indie and trap. Hard 808 ...

Wooly Aziz

Wooly Aziz is a solo, progressive R&B/soul/left-field project by Jannat Sohail from Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for ...

SoundSysters

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

Klangteppich

Klangteppich (»Sound Carpet«) is a festival presenting contemporary musicians from the Iranian diaspora. The focus of the second issue in 2019 was on artists ...

Blue Babe

Erin Renfro’s solo project, Blue Babe, is an authentic and atmospheric introspection into a darkness not easily shared with others. The indie pop-rock singer-songwriter-composer ...

Reverend Dabeler

Even with plenty of accomplishments behind him, the Reverend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. By night, he likes to roam the canyons of ...

Choka

Choka is a new collaboration between multidisciplinary artist Maque Pereyra and experimental musician Ricardo Eizirik. They started creating music together in 2022 with the ...

yunis

The sound of yunis is dynamic and intricate, but always bringing a fully-fleshed vibe that’s capable of moving dancefloors and fuelling the imagination alike. ...

Berus

Before starting his most personal music project under the stage name Berus, the Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist and producer took a few detours. He toured the ...

goldenair

goldenair is a producer, songwriter and classically trained multi-instrumentalist living in Berlin. He is half of the R&B act GOLDA, signed to Majestic Casual ...

Sleepover Drone

Sleepover Drone is a platform for artists working with drone, ambient, and experimental music. The focus is on female and non-binary artists. The concert ...

VIVE L’AFRIQUE

In 2018, for the fourth time, AHOI Artists & Events presents the Africa festival VIVE L’AFRIQUE at Berlin’s LabSaal-Lübars in collaboration with PROFOLK e.V. ...

City At Dark

Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) first met in early 2017. The duo constructs a patchwork of indie rock, blues, and psych. ...

Mynolia

With electric guitar, soft vocals and a VHS camera, Mynolia captures the melancholic side of summer. Her psychedelic folk is a New Zealand-Canadian-German cocktail ...

Poison Arrow

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

Spoon

Spoon is a DJ workspace for women*, trans and non-binary people. Initiated in 2018, Spoon regularly offers practical training on turntables for DJs, whether ...

Nik Dandelion

The world of Nik Dandelion is transformed into a kaleidoscope of times past – a postmodern dream. Retro sounds and aesthetics are broken up ...

Synästhesie Festival

Beginning in the manageable Bassy Club in 2015 and meanwhile set at the sprawling Kulturbrauerei, this audiovisual happening has made itself known beyond local ...

Amplify Berlin

Amplify Berlin is a residency and mentorship programme designed to support projects by emerging musicians, composers, producers and performers in Berlin. Month-long residencies pair ...

Lion Sphere

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

Sara Miller

Those tender moments of cathartic house euphoria are what Sara Miller strives for, as the Irish-born DJ and producer conducts blissful trajectories through the ...

Boundaries Congress

Boundaries Congress was created as a networking event with the vision of promoting diverse cultural opportunities in Berlin. The aim is providing a space ...

Paul Frick

Paul Frick was born in Berlin. He took composition classes since the age of twelve with Il-Ryun Chung. Since 2008 the group Brandt Brauer ...

Milwalkie

Milwalkie is an indie rock band formed by the brothers Matt and Steve Morris from Aberdeen, Scotland. Milwalkie began in 2011 when the brothers ...

Anais Tuerlinckx

Fascinated by Berlin and its possibilities, Anaïs Tuerlinck found the perfect playground for her freely improvised music, noise and performances of all genres. She ...

Future Palace

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

The Zenmenn

Both old and new, organic and lively, harmonic and rhythmic, simple and complex – that’s the sound of the debut album by the three-piece ...

Kudur

Kudur is a music and performance-focused party series organized by the trans/queer PoC members of the Berlin-based collective with the same name. At Kudur, ...

Phia

»Phia seems to possess the past of [an] Australian with the inspiration and musical edge of a true Berliner« (Berlin Sessions). Otherwise known as ...

14.11.90 – 30 Jahre Räumung Mainzerstraße

On November 14, 1990, twelve squats were evicted in Berlin-Friedrichshain. On the 30th anniversary of the eviction, various players from within Berlin’s subculture came ...

Fraencis

Fraencis crafts his music with the intent of leaving listeners in a slight state of unease as he explores the dark and moody side ...

EASTER

EASTER is the Berlin-based duo of writer Stine Omar and producer Max Boss, who place the deadpan delivery of riddling rhymes atop synthetic post-Eurodance ...

T’neeya

Born Tania Takoh, T’neeya is an Afro-R&B artist. Her Cameroonian father and German mother provided influences at an early age. Her father’s love of ...

ARA

Corinne aka ARA found music through her family. Her father, who spent his life in Matonge, the most musical district of the Congolese capital ...

Kometenmelodien

The concert series Kometenmelodien, which takes place in the Kantine am Berghain, directs listeners’ ears to exciting new artists making music in the genres ...

Neukölln Country Club

Neukölln Country Club is a vaudeville show with live music hosted by the house band The Hole Boys. Regularly, musicians are invited to perform ...

Celina Bostic

As the child of a German mother and an African-American father growing up in Berlin, Celina Bostic learned early on to adapt to the ...

Jolly Goods

On the cover of their second album, ›Walrus‹, two sisters size up their observers with challenging glances a la Lennon. Tanno Pippi, one of ...

ceci + De Pepa

Cecilia and Sascha met on a date back in 2021. They quickly discovered they were both fascinated by the unknown side of music. Together, ...

#PANDAnissaa

PANDA Platforma takes a broad international approach with concerts, exhibitions, political discussions, LGBTQI+ events and theatre. Here, the phenomenon of diaspora communities in Berlin ...

Kollabo – Das Konzert

»Sisterhood, das sind wir!« (»Sisterhood, that‘s us!«) is a line from one of the many new rap songs on the label Sisterqueens, which focusses ...

Grinderteeth

Grinder is a small community of 200 people in Norway. Veslemøy Rustad Holseter not only grew up here – the town seal adorned with ...

Collo Awata

Collo Awata’s art – whether music, sound design, DJing or video – is deeply interwoven with experiences of the African diaspora. By weaving in ...

Laurids Richter

Laurids Richter is a drummer and producer from Berlin, that made a name for himself in the mid-90s jazz and hip-hop scene of the ...

The Witches Tales

Initiated by AL.Berlin, The Witches Tales is an event series offering a stage to artists of all kinds of different musical genres. Every week ...

Gigolo Tears

Gigolo Tears sounds like a banana split, broken hearts and the oiled muscles of a female bodybuilder on the beach. It is the solo ...

Enana

Since their arrival in Berlin as a refugee in 2015, escaping war and violence as a queer and trans person in Syria, Enana found ...

Khalil Chahine

Khalil Chahine is a Berlin-based engineer and producer who combines musical and scientific knowledge (in physics with a focus on psychoacoustics) in his unique ...

Minimal Schlager

As Minimal Schlager, Olga Karatzioti B and siblings Alicia Macanás and Francisco Parisi create synth-pop that deals with and dissects identities, sexual experiences and ...

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