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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Eat my Fear (Photo: René Greffin)

Eat my Fear

Eat my Fear make queer-feminist hardcore punk, loud and angry with a clear political stance. The songs deal with experiences …

DASCO (Photo: Polina Perry)

DASCO

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

Das Rattenkabinett (Photo: d.nietze-fotografie)

Das Rattenkabinett

Since 2019, Das Rattenkabinett have been playing in a new constellation with a new sound: female-fronted and more experimental than …

Cuntroaches (Photo: M Dabbadie)

Cuntroaches

Cuntroaches are bathed in red light, demonic and louder than hell itself. Since 2015, the band has defiled countless venues …

Corinne (Photo: Yannick Selinger)

ARA

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

Christin Nichols (Photo: Kay Ruhe)

Christin Nichols

After the break-up of her band Prada Meinhoff, the German-British artist, singer and composer Christin Nichols pursued a solo project. …

Chimp Hardy (Photo: Eva Fredrichs)

Chimp Hardy

Queer artist Chimp Hardy is no stranger to controversy. Performing painted and half naked, the Berlin-based, Austin, Texas-born DJ and …

Chabezo (Photo: Maximilian R. Schneider)

Chabezo

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

canelonely (Photo: Ink Agop)

canelonely

canelonely is an interdisciplinary music and video project by Jannik Morton Schneider. With the band Der Ringer, for which he …

Breezy (Photo: Steph Foster)

Breezy

Breezy’s hip-hop music and visual art revolves around themes of mental health, inequality, gender expression, and racial identity as a …

Blazey (Photo: Hanny Moon)

Blazey

As Blazey, Millé and Nik are a duo active in the genres of pop, soul and hip-hop. Their respective musical …

Black Skin Lover Boy (Foto: Joanna Boss)

Black Skin Lover Boy

If Black Skin Lover Boy had the choice between paradise and Berlin, he would always choose Berlin. For Black Skin …

Batila (Photo: Oliver Ajkovic)

Batila

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

Banu (Photo: Banu)

Banu

With DJing as an artistic tool, Banu’s work can be located somewhere between sound, music, research and activism. Originally from …

BANTUNAGOJÊJE (Photo: Janine Thämlitz)

BANTUNAGOJÊJE

BANTUNAGOJÊJE is when Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat meets jazz in downtown Salvador. In addition to influences like Afrobeat, fusion jazz and …

B O K E H (Foto: Caroline Mackintosh)

B O K E H

In 2016, B O K E H, the artistic alter-ego of New Zealand-raised and Berlin-based artist, Chloë Lewer, was born. …

AZZURRA (Photo: Adriana Napolitano)

AZZURRA

AZZURRA is a singer-songwriter who combines delicate electronic and dark pop elements with her intimate voice into a deep sound. …

AŸA (Photo: Celeste Call)

AŸA

AŸA is an all-rounder. In her music, however, she tells stories that reflect her Moroccan-Yemeni roots. Her electro-pop sound is …

Ava Vegas (Photo: Saga Sigurðardóttir)

Ava Vegas

Ava Vegas spent most of her youth on Ibiza, living in a small house her parents had built. Influenced by …

Ava Bonam (Photo: Ava Bonam)

Ava Bonam

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