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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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Eluize

Eluize spends her time creating, curating and sharing a spectrum of electronic music to soundtrack the hours. The Adelaide-born, Berlin-based DJ, live act, producer ...

TEll A ViSiON

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

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 ...

Maike Rosa Vogel

Over the last decade, Maike Rosa Vogel has grown into an important German-speaking indie pop singer-songwriter. She’s one to listen to her own heart, ...

Ment

After studying veterinary medicine and music education in Berlin, Isabel (Izzy) Ment began writing and producing her debut EP ›As The Words Come Through‹ ...

ANOTHER NGUYEN

As ANOTHER NGUYEN, singer and songwriter Ngoc Anh Nguyen makes electronic-tinged, contemplative pop. Influences like Julia Michaels and Adele meet ARY, Tsar B and ...

WaqWaq Kingdom

WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo consisting of dubstep-noise savvy Kiki Hitomi and Shigeru Ishihara, the latter of whom has been orbiting ...

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 ...

Karmatürji

Karmatürji is the musical project of Ceyhun Kaya and Petra Nachtmanova in collaboration with the well-known Berliner DJ and activist Ipek Ipekcioglu. Their sound ...

Vida Vojić

Sound maker, poet, and artist Vida Vojić could be described as a vessel of untold secrets. Sound is the carrying vehicle for the outbursts ...

bela

Originally from Paju South Korea, bela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are known for electronic music performance ...

Pari San

With Pari San, two worlds collide. There’s the Berlin-based microsystems engineer Paul Brenning, who grew up with classical music and produces electronic synth music ...

Yuriy Gurzhy

Yuriy Gurzhy is an Ukrainian and Berlin-based musician, DJ, producer and radio broadcaster. Together with the German writer Wladimir Kaminer he started the now ...

&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 ...

Maous

Maous is no stranger to insecurity and fear, and much like the eponymous mammal, these two things don’t bother Maous either. Quite the opposite: ...

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 ...

Emika

Producer and songwriter Emika has a background in classical piano and composition and was a sound designer for Native Instruments, one of the leading ...

Fuffifufzich

Fuffifufzich is a spaghetti Western, a phenomenon that is at the same time gangster, cowboy and queen. Fuffifufzich can be a woman, a little ...

Laura Elle

Barcelona-born Laura Elle describes herself as a »fat queer singer-songwriter«. Intimate and introspective, her music revolves around soulful vocals that form the centre of ...

Ducks!

Lani Bagley and Craig Schuftan are Ducks!. They make electronic music for dancing and dreaming, influenced by Disney and disco, combining synthesiser and vocal ...

EERA

Anna Lena Bruland was expressly warned by her grandfather, a renowned conductor in Norway in the 50s and 60s, not to pursue an artistic ...

KOKA

Solo artist KOKA actually moved from her native Albania to Germany for study purposes. But after discovering her passion for songwriting on a journey ...

Helmut

After years as a shy solo entertainer, Adrian Schull just happened upon a band. Or rather, he was looking for them. There are pros ...

p a l e

What are roots? What is identity for people who carry several cultures within themselves, and what does it mean to be »mixed«? p a ...

Wanja Janeva

Wanja Janeva grew up in Berlin as the daughter of Bulgarian parents. Since then, she has travelled the world with her voice. She is ...

NANA

NANA is a singer and songwriter who had previously roamed the Berlin subculture under various pseudonyms. But when a twist of fate pulled the ...

Danube

Berlin-based singer and songwriter Stella Lindner is originally from Southern Germany, born and raised in the Bavarian countryside, on the banks of the Danube ...

Kechou

Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, rapper, producer, and instrument maker based in Berlin. He works with live loops and (North) ...

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 ...

Adelle Nqeto

Adelle Nqeto’s music stems from the gaze of an introverted observer with a passion for melody and stories. Rooted in South African folk and ...

Steven Warwick

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making ...

Us, From Damascus to Berlin

After dedicating a piece to Berlin’s U8 train line at the end of 2019, Syrian composer and percussionist Elias Aboud came up with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rûveyda

Rûveyda uses lyrical and musical elements to let her identity as a young Muslim woman living in the diaspora speak. The Anatolian singer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Petra Hermanova

In 2018, Petra Hermanova began working with the autoharp, which has since gone on to become the key component of her musical work. Inspired ...

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 ...

Ava Bonam

With her eerily beautiful original compositions, characterised by atmospheric vocals and dense piano sounds, the musician and producer Ava Bonam opens the world to ...

DFRNT

Grandma and Grandpa want one thing at all costs: to give their grandson piano lessons. They put aside the money to drag him to ...

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 ...

Wizzy

Wizzy is a Syrian singer-songwriter, performer and mentor for Queer Syria and the event series Dandanah and Queens Against Borders in Berlin, where he ...

Ava Vegas

Ava Vegas spent most of her youth on Ibiza, living in a small house her parents had built. Influenced by the Spanish island’s techno ...

Friedberg

Friedberg are the brainchild of Austrian-born Anna Wappel. The four-piece, all-female band are a tour de force of gritty rock energy combined with intuitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

slimgirl fat

slimgirl fat is a small fish in a big pond. You might know her through her further projects Gaddafi Gals and Nalan381. slimgirl fat ...

Islamiq Grrrls

Islamiq Grrrls hibernate during the day and loiter at night. While often associated with forests, many Islamiq Grrrls are ecotone species that live in ...

Strip Down

The Berlin-based solo artist Strip Down has been passionately producing punchy electro synth-pop and bringing it to clubs throughout Europe since 2012. Having taken ...

Pari Eskandari

Pari Eskandari is an Iranian-German singer, composer and producer living in Berlin. In 1988 at the age of three, she fled with her parents ...

Balbina

Balbina was born in Warsaw in 1983, but since she’s a 3-year-old girl, she’s living in Berlin. The singer and songwriter is observing her ...

PC Nackt

Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt is one of the most versatile artists in the German music scene. As a composer, producer and performer, he ...

KENICHI & THE SUN

Katrin Hahner (Berlin/Reykjavik) is a multidisciplinary and genre-bending sonic and visual artist and mastermind behind the new project KENICHI & THE SUN. Inspired by ...

Clear History

Clear History are a scorching post-punk trio from Berlin who make a big deal out of little things, sometimes vice versa. Their influences include ...

Meagre Martin

Berlin-based songwriter-turned-trio Meagre Martin was founded in the summer of 2021 by the African-American musician and songwriter Sarah Martin (guitar, she/her) and quickly joined ...

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 ...

Gurr

When two best friends found a band, the result is a world full of insider jokes. Gurr’s debut album ›In My Head‹ introduces their ...

Modha

The first encounter of the members of Modha was rather unexpected, crossing paths as hired musicians playing in a live band. At the time, ...

Gewalt

Berlin-based band Gewalt condenses in most-radical tongues the impossibility and inescapability of human existence. This is the nucleus of the art of Helen Henfling, ...

Wayne Snow

There’s an undeniable warmth to Wayne Snow’s music, one that combines a contemporary take on his homeland Nigeria with neo-soul, alternative pop, soultronica, and ...

Ben and Magnus

After spending the last few years based in Berlin working as producers, arrangers and players for artists such as David Byrne, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, ...

Black Cracker

Stoic as fuck, with a baby face and a set of blue-collar shoulders, Ellison Renee Glenn aka Black Cracker (formerly Celena Glenn) rocks a ...

Soraya

Half-German. half-Malaysian vocalist and DJ Soraya grew up in between cultures, heavily inspired by the variety of genres encompassing soundsystem club music from the ...

Erfolg

Erfolg is the German-language solo project of Johannes von Weizsäcker, whom some may know as a member of the London-Berlin pop group The Chap. ...

21 Downbeat

Exhilaration and ecstasy, or rather noise and confetti, are the principles of the inclusive band 21 Downbeat. Like satyrs, the cheerful demons in the ...

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 ...

Sin Maldita

Having previously released two records of oneiric ambient music on Martin Hossbach as 1k Flowers and having worked with artists such as Jungstötter, P.A. ...

Zoë Mc Pherson

Zoë Mc Pherson is a producer, sound designer, live performer and DJ based in Berlin, whose 2020 album ›States of Fugue‹ »fiercely twists experimental ...

Spoke

Spoke, as a trained sound and light technician, started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, while the first ...

Evvol

Noir moodscapes you can dance to was one critic’s response to Evvol’s 2015 debut ›Eternalism‹. The band – aka Irish singer Julie Chance and ...

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 ...

Shapednoise

Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise has been working as an independent musician for the past four years. He focuses his research on noises and experimental ...

SO SORRY

SO SORRY is a Berlin-based FLINTA* band composed of Zuza (vocals), Shanice (bass), and Käthe (keys). The three musicians have worked together on different ...

O’Swald

Julian O’Swald aka O’Swald is a Berlin-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer. He draws on various genres such as jazz, indie soul, indie pop, ...

Musa

Musa is a fighter. As part of the BSMG (Black Superman Gang) with Megaloh and Ghanaian Stallion, the Berlin resident found the right space ...

Nishad Pandey

Born in India, Nishad Pandey spent extended periods of time in Japan, the UK, the USA and Australia, where he completed a bachelor’s degree ...

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 ...

Güner Künier

Güner Künier comes from the Turkish port of Izmir. In the early 1990s, she moved to Germany with her family. She started playing the ...

She Knows

She Knows define themselves as more than a mere music act. Always inspired by the creative power of their peers, singer and lyricist Teresa ...

Lyra Pramuk

Lyra Pramuk is a vocalist, composer, and performance artist based in Berlin. Her work fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club ...

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. ...

Snøffeltøffs

Snøffeltøffs are two boys from Berlin who serve unpretentious Grarage Rock with a real Popstar attitude (»Shit-Fi Pizza Wave« is what they call it). ...

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 ...

PABST

After releasing their first EP in 2016, Berlin rock band PABST in 2018 had their debut full-length album. The 12 songs on ›Chlorine‹ were ...

Onirologia

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

oOoOO

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in and around NYC as ...

Baby Smith

Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable are waiting in the wings. As Baby Smith, the two founding members of their successful previous project People Club ...

Lüül

Lüül (Lutz Graf-Ulbrich) is a Berlin-born musician, singer/songwriter, and guitar player. He played in German Krautrock bands like Agitation Free and Ash Ra Tempel, ...

Kosmo Kint

Born in New York City of Trinidadian heritage, singer-songwriter and vocalist Kosmo Kint has been part of the recent NYC music scene, singing in ...

Die Höchste Eisenbahn

The quartet Die Höchste Eisenbahn, consisting of Moritz Krämer, Francesco Wilking, Felix Weigt and Max Schröder, dominates the art of intermediate notes. Their music ...

DJ Ipek

As the child of Turkish parents, İpek İpekçioğlu grew up mainly in Berlin – surrounded by classical music both Western and Turkish as well ...

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 ...

Catnapp

Favouring emotional expressionism and intense beats, Catnapp is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with a unique and bold take on songwriting and production. ...

Disco Vumbi

Alai K is the alias of Abdalla Khamis Abdalla – a Kenyan producer, musician, singer-songwriter and DJ now living in Berlin. Born in Mombasa ...

Marco Barotti

Marco Barotti is a modern performing artist in the broadest sense of the word. After leaving his studies at the Siena Jazz Academy far ...

Eilis Frawley

Eilis Frawley is a classically trained percussionist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. She spent a number of years in Seoul, where ...

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