Musicboard-Berlin > 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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Future East

Future East is a Berlin-based platform and festival for presenting radical and explorative music and audiovisual performances, working primarily with non-Western artists. The project ...
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&love

The story of &love starts in early spring 2016. Two singer-songwriters from Israel met on one of Jaffa’s most hectic street corners during a ...
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AYO City Festival

The AYO City Festival, launched by the artist collective Freak de l’Afrique, aims to provide a platform for BPOC artists and their communities, making ...
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DJ Paypal

DJ Paypal’s playful moniker and internet-savvy branding hint at a healthy sense of humour, but his music is as lush and soulful as his ...
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Trucks

Reintroducing the complicated. With linguistic bulkiness, Trucks form the antithesis of both mainstream and teenage Deutschpop. Trucks are also about the self and its ...
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Fenster

Fenster is a psychedelic pop band consisting of Jonathan Jarzyna (DE), JJ Weihl (USA), Lucas Ufo (FR) and Elias Hock (DE). After releasing two ...
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VEE

VEE is a Berlin-based singer and songwriter who creates dark, futuristic, avant-garde RnB with subtle trap influences. Inspired by artists like Banks and FKA ...
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Mark Bérubé

Mark Bérubé is a Canadian folk artist who already produced four albums and toured successfully in his homeland and Europe. Together with Kristina Koropecki ...
Mia Aegerter

Mia Aegerter

In her native country, Switzerland, Berlin-based Mia Aegerter has released four highly acclaimed and awarded full-length albums– all written in Swiss dialect. With her ...
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Sarah Farina

Sarah Farina is an international DJ, producer, and activist. She is part of the music collective Through My Speakers and hosts her own club ...
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GIL

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...
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Dino Joubert

Dino Joubert from the tranquil town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia was just 14 years old when the American songwriter Elliott Smith died in ...
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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. ...
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Sam Vance-Law

What does it sound like when someone who grew up without pop music makes pop music? This is a question for which there is ...
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Drone Day

With International Drone Day on 25th May in mind, the artists sn(50), Inter Lineas, Auguste Vickunaite + Nina Guo, Diane Barbé, DuChamp, Vida Vojić, ...
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DICE RISING

DICE RISING is a new experimental programme for emerging Berlin-based musicians, organisers and other people working in music: three days of online workshops, mentoring, ...
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tuftyhead

tuftyhead is a dark-disco duo based in Berlin. In early 2018, Max Hirtz-Wolf, composer and originator, moved from his home of Berkeley, California, to ...
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Batila

Batila calls his combination of Congolese rhythms, a touch of reggae, soft jazzy vibes and some electronic sounds Bantu Soul: a fusion of all ...
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QEEI

Tatiana Heuman works on music and sound creation between Argentina and Europe. She plays drums, likes loops, repetitions and surprises. Her unique approach to ...
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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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Zug der Liebe

Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Berlin for a peaceful demonstration, united by music, for a tolerant and humane society as ›Zug ...
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AUF

AUF is the band of singer and guitarist Anne Rolfs and drummer Mathias Brendel, based in Berlin. Anne Rolfs first became known as the ...
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Jungstötter

Jungstötter is the moniker of Berlin-based singer Fabian Altstötter. The frontman of the band Sizarr, which split up in 2016, has teamed up with ...
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Gina D'Orio

Gina D’Orio is a Berlin musician, producer and singer. She is the main former vocalist from Ec80r and member of Cobra Killer. She started ...
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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 ...
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Traurig und Untanzbar

Curated by Tobias Lichtmann, Traurig und Untanzbar (»Sad and Undanceable«) is an event dedicated to presenting melancholic music. Featuring the artists Subheim, Blakk Harbour, ...
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Polkageist

It was a cold winter in 2010 when five boys from Berlin raised the roofs of the flats in Neukölln. With a bit of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Happy New Tears

DJ and producer Happy New Tears plays machine-processed music for the melancholy self. Her sets are always brimming with atmospheric, emotional, genre-defying music, inviting ...
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An-i

An-i is the latest musical moniker for former New Yorker Doug Lee AKA Lee Douglas, who emerged out NYC’s Leftfield Disco scene of the ...
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Odd Couple

Jascha Kreft and Tammo Dehn are childhood friends, native East Frisians, Berliners by choice and experts in curiosities. Since 2014, they have been fusing ...
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Johanna Knutsson

10 years ago, Johanna Knutsson left her native Sweden for Berlin to dive deeper into the music scene and find her sound in electronic ...
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Vamp Acid

Vamp Acid is a live acid dance producer, dark electro DJ and designer. Peppered with 80s analogue beats, her music combines sensual vocals with ...

DENA

DENA is the project of Denitza Todorova, a singer-songwriter and producer born in Bulgaria who dove into Berlin’s multi-faceted music scene last decade. Since ...
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Ambient im Garten

With Ambient im Garten, the STAUB collective, along with labels Unrush and Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound, is carefully bringing electronic-music culture back into ...
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Selected

Launched in 2019, Selected focusses on hip-hop outside of the mainstream, standing against violence and discrimination and taking place in a relaxed and respectful ...

Empower Festival

Empower is an Afro-futuristic and queer-feminist festival and presented some of the most important current work by queer people and/or BPoC active in music, ...
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MIKEY.

MIKEY. is a songwriter and performer born in Newcastle Australia, now living in Berlin by way of New York and London. They have won ...
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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 ...
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BERLINTOUCH

BERLINTOUCH helps Berlin bands find new audiences beyond their usual reach. The event series focusses on the transfer of experience and integrating up-and-coming artists ...
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Isolation Berlin

Founded in 2012 by singer Tobias Bamborschke and guitarist Max Bauer, Isolation Berlin is a German-language indie band. Their lineup since 2013 includes Simeon ...
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Wiesenburg Festival

Over the past 15 years, the Wiesenburg has become increasingly accessible to the surrounding neighborhood. Its protected location and the special nature of its ...
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Anthony Hüseyin

Raised in conservative Urfa in Southeastern Turkey and educated in the cities of Istanbul and Rotterdam in both classical and jazz singing, Anthony Hüseyin ...
Transculture Express

Transculture Express

With the podcast series Transculture Express, the Neukölln collective Artistania offers a community platform to the musicians and music lovers who would regularly meet ...
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We Make Waves

We Make Waves aims to connect women by creating a forum for discourse, idea-sharing, mentoring and goal-setting, showcasing the strengths of women in the ...
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Kaltès

Kaltès is a musician and DJ based in Berlin. She has an extensive background in music, having studied jazz and improvisation in Brussels before ...
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Stefan Goldmann

Techno has always been about imagining the future and feeling the excitement of change and discovery. This aspiration has been guiding Stefan Goldmann in ...
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DJ Scotch Egg

Armed only with Nintendo Game Boys and a penchant for mosh pits, DJ Scotch Egg began as an experimental 8-bit gabba and breakcore project. ...
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Johanna Borchert

Johanna Borchert is a singer, pianist and composer whose roots lie in jazz. In October 2014, the charismatic artist released her first record ›FM ...
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Bedroom Sessions

The Bedroom Sessions presented young musicians in Berlin and around the world. Artists had the opportunity to reach and interact with a global audience ...
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musicBwoman

musicBwomen is a network for young female* professionals involved in the music industry, offering coaching, consulting and education to help advance careers. The coaching ...
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A'th

A’th has been interested in the relationship between migration, belonging, resilience and music not only since her art school degree in interactive performance and ...
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M.E.S.H.

M.E.S.H. was started by James Whipple. M.E.S.H. is a project situated within the interior grandeur of the digital, sometimes connecting to the socio-physics of ...
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Jinka

Jinka is a writer/singer/producer of Transylvanian origin who dropped the first single of her artist project in mid-2017. She set up her laboratory in ...
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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 ...

gespenster

gespenster is the project of Phil Haussmann, a Berlin-based songwriter who has previously released two albums and toured extensively with indie-folk outfit Apples In ...
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HI FREAKS

The RambaZamba Theater is the home for the experimental, musical-lyrical late-night show HI FREAKS. Along with friends from the music and literature scene, the ...
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Tellavision

Tellavision is the music project of Berlin-based songwriter, producer, performer and interdisciplinary artist Fee Kürten. As Tellavision, Kürten serves a mixture of krautrock, techno ...
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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. ...
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Ich brauche eine Genie

Founded in 2017 by the musicians, writers and activists Sandra and Kerstin Grether, Ich brauche eine Genie – Popkultur, Feminismus, Spaß und so (»I ...
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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 ...
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Gaddafi Gals

Gaddafi Gals formed in 2016 with blaqtea, slimgirl fat and walter p99 arke$tra. All of them had other projects at this point: blaqtea as ...
The CAN Project

The CAN Project

Last year Irmin Schmidt turned 80. In honour of this and of the fifty-year anniversary of the band CAN, a tribute concert at the ...
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Yetundey

The multilingual rapper Yetundey knows how to rack up points with surprises. While she oscillates among the German, English and French languages and occasionally ...
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Blue Desert

Blue Desert is a form of Berlin Desert Blues: A musical encounter of five people from Agadez, Agadir, Hamburg and Berlin that has been ...
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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 ...
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OKAN FREI

OKAN FREI, born as son of a Turkish guest worker family in Berlin, is a child from Orient and Occident. In his self-written songs, ...
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Half Girl

Half Girl is Berlin’s scariest all-girl-super-group: Julie Miess (Mutter, Britta), Vera Kropf (Luise Pop) Anna-Leena Lutz (formerly Die Heiterkeit) and Gwendolin Tägert (Mondo Fumatore). ...
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Music in the church

Music In The Church is a Concert series in the all-enveloping setting of two churches in the heart of Berlin, Elisabethkirche and Sophienkirche, reinventing ...
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Feels Trip & Bukowski

Reverberating rimshots, organic bass and spacey synths meet melancholic vocals with lyrics about dysfunctional relationships and inner turmoil – two friends maneuvering from R&B ...
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Womxn To The Max

African Beats & Pieces is a series that has been presenting African music at its events since 2017. It places a special focus on ...

Down by the River Festival #9

The Down by the River Festival is a live music festival for »freaks, fans and family«. It celebrates the city’s non-commercial concert culture and ...
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Philipp Gorbachev

After moving to Berlin in 2010, Philipp Gorbachev befriended Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, which set the wheels in motion for a series of debut ...

Dragonale

The Dragonale 2019, founded by the neighbourhood initiative Dragopolis and organised in cooperation with Initiative Kreativ Haus Kreuzberg and Gretchen club, took place on ...
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Berlin Song Week

The Berlin Song Week is an event concept for the creatives »behind the song«. Songwriter and producer get the chance to present themselves to ...
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Sam Barker

After a musical upbringing, Sam Barker moved to Brighton to study Digital Music in 2002, and became a key part of the city’s emerging ...
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Gemma Ray

Berlin-based, British-born Gemma Ray is an artist who has been given diverse and exotic descriptions such as »torch song psychedelia«, »sideways blues« »girl-group melodrama« ...
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IXXF

›Everything sucks‹ is one of the first singles by the non-binary hyperpop artist IXXF. But that’s not entirely true, as it certainly doesn’t apply ...
Alex Stolze

Alex Stolze

Music is something the Berlin-born Stolze considers integral to his life – a need apparent in the passion he puts into each of his ...
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Anoki

Anoki grows up in the 90s between Dutch red facades and a small Bavarian town to an Indonesian-born father with American citizenship and a ...
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Temple Haze

Temple Haze’s music is an ever-evolving and ever-changing tapestry. From his roots in blues and alt-country music to modern downbeat, ambient and lo-fi, Temple ...
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SADO OPERA

Inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic, Prince and Liberace, SADO OPERA hail from St. Petersburg, offering a mix of disco, boogie and electro-funk fused into a high-energy, ...
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Lamb Kebab

Best known for her visceral rap performances, Berlin-based Cuban-American artist Rachel de la Torre (aka Lamb Kebab) attempts to reexamine the perspectives and roles ...
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Antifuchs

Anti-cliché, anti-whack-rap, ANTIFUCHS! With an anti-everything-attitude, a fox won’t let himself be bothered by much. Quite to the contrary, he’ll simply bite back! A ...
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Ghost Town

With Ghost Town, four (sub)cultural locations in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg were to be revived for one day, illustrating the legacy of the districts. The ...
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Grinderteeth

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

Nalan Karacagil is a musician, producer and DJ from Berlin. As slimgirl fat and part of the trio Gaddafi Gals, she has released three ...
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Andreas Spechtl

Andreas Spechtl has been the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Ja, Panik since 2006, which has released five albums to date. In summer 2016 ...
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Discovery Zone

Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl who is also a founding member of the experimental pop project Fenster. ...
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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 ...
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Enyang Ha

Enyang Ha is a Berlin-based Korean electronic music composer and performer. Her approach is based on experimenting with her voice, sampling her body and ...
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Musikschiff

Over the past few years, the Musikschiff (»Music Ship«) has become a permanent programme element within the event 48 Stunden Neukölln with its young, ...
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Kompbars

Kompbars is a German rap party series with DJs and Live acts. The focus of this concert series is to better connect the hip-hop ...
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Music Cities Convention

Music Cities Convention is the largest and most extensive gathering on Music Cities. The conference brings together leaders from governments, cities and regions, academics, ...
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LiveBytes Berlin

LiveBytes Berlin is a platform for up-and-coming Berliner artists and local venues – with the aim of giving them national and international attention. Audio ...
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Von Wegen Lisbeth

Five Berlin boys and a small cellar: The result resembles a rather dense piece of pastry. It smells a little bit like Indie, tastes ...
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Come Together!

With Come Together!, both established and young Sinti and Roma artists have a platform to present themselves to the city and its visitors. The ...
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Jeannel

Jeannel is a composer, singer and producer. Born into a family of musicians, she received classical cello lessons, absorbing Bach, Brahms and Saint-Saëns from ...
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