Alternative Power 100 Music List 2021
The moment we've been waiting for is here!
Find out who made it in this year’s Alternative Power 100 Music list 2021 partnership with Patreon.
We want to say a huge thank you for all your nominations, celebrations and kind words about others, it's been so inspiring to read them all. Congratulations to everyone on the list, and everyone who received a nomination! With the challenges we've all faced this year it's important to take time to celebrate the things we've achieved and the people who inspired us.
From those architecting new ways of owning work to people building a new creative economy where the independent community can fully thrive, across 10 categories, our list is full of inspirational change makers and future thinkers from across the world. From Artist Managers to Sound Creators and forward thinking business minds we're so excited to see where you all go next!
With love, from the shesaid.so team
Aria Hurtado: Guitarist
“Aria used the time inside to create a powerful social media presence where she advertised and fundraised for her band in creative ways.”- Emi Gutierrez
Beatrice Thiriet: Président
“Béatrice Thiriet, french composer of 2021
She write for 30 years (she was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Music for "Bird People" and notably composed the music for the films "Lady Chatterley" by Pascale Ferran in 2007 and "Les Guests de my father ”by Anne le Ny in 2010), but also for opera, theater and dance.
she created with her company the workshop of Béatrice Thiriet a web series muzik them to promote the history of women in music. She teaches in the very prestigious normal music school of Paris. This year she received a creativity grant for a musical drama for which she wrote the libretto. she is very active in many French artistic associations and fights for the respect of creation and creators while respecting diversity and parity.she participates in a think tank on the theme of the economic resilience of the artistic community after the covid crisis. his show Musik'Elles the history of female music is a success on the web and the media, its marketing development is being studied with young executives graduated from the hec business school.”- Jérôme Diamant-Berger
Gina Jeanz: Music Producer DJ
“Gina is a Namibian Music producer based in Cape Town she is one of the very few women in Africa producing electronic music. She has been composing her own tracks for over 14 years and in the last four years has been visibly performing and growing her audience. I want to see her celebrated for her contributions as an Electronic producer and Woman in music mainly because the industry itself lacks support for women of colour especially in South Africa where she is based. Shes also a foreigner in SA so the journey has been a long one. As someone close to her I see how hard she’s worked and over the last couple of years, whatever she makes financially from her gigs and production she puts back into her craft and growing her brand. She understands sacrifice and I absolutely admire her worth ethic.” - Mousa Sow
Laura Bettinson/lau.ra: Artist & DJ
“Laura has just become a mother for the 1st time. Her baby arrived 8 weeks early. She took it in her stride, and after 3 weeks in hospital is back home looking after her new family and planning the future of her career. Prior to the birth, Laura worked so hard putting together a whole host of her own music, collaborations and remixes. This helped put together a schedule of releases that would stretch over a year after the baby's birth, to allow her to focus on family life but continue to sustain her work. There will be a vinyl EP release as well within this first year. With all artwork, press releases and images already put together, Laura will be able to manage a healthy balance which is so important. I think this is an incredible feat and I am really excited to see how everything comes together.”- Dan Garber
Maria Finkelmeier: Percussionist, Composer, Public Artist, Creative Catalyst
“Maria is ambitious, collaborative, fearless, and truly visionary! She has equitable community engagement in mind every step of the way, in each of her thoughtful, vibrant, site-specific, and participatory public art extravaganzas. She is a force, an inspiration, and—above all—a wonderful friend.”- Allison Tanenhaus
Ramera Abraham: Sound engineer/ Vocal Producer
“Ramera is one of the more diligent hard working people within the music industry. She’s recorded & engineered some of the biggest artists in the world despite being constantly overlooked by so many of her contemporaries, taking her career into her own hands, going freelance working at Platoon and KILLING IT!”- Matthew Cabot
Rouhangeze Baichoo: Sound engineer/ Vocal Producer
“Rouhangeze is an artist who always searches for new ways to deliver quality and sophisticated music to people. Recently she joined Jazz FM as a presenter and her show reached a lot of music lovers who believe her show is something that delivers music they never heard before. As a musician her creativity seems to have no end and she does not accept anything below the level of perfection. Her music and work as a presenter entails more then music. She connects us listeners with the culture, gives us a better understanding of where particular genres come from and what cross-pollination in music is and how it changes our world.”- Tomasz Bura
Sanaya Ardeshir: Composer/Musician/Producer
“Sanaya has been a musician since a very young age, but what is inspiring about her is the choice to carve her own path. Her focus on her work makes her a spectacular artist/musician. I've been inspired by her discipline, her music and her kindness. She now focuses on deep listening and how it translates into field recording, which are fields that are largely unexplored in the Indian context but the discovery of which she is very ably spearheading.”- Surbhi Mittal
Stranger Souma: Label founder & Sound designer
“As an electronic music producer based in Casablanca, I believe that her role in the north African cultural community is pretty efficient. Sharing knowledge, access, teaching the how-to to other women in the region has started already rising awareness and moving the female north african scene I electronic music.
Nominating this remarkable and impressive woman will never raise a Doubt about her modest self. And I believe that modesty, humbleness, the will of a continuous evolution and the desire to share all of this along the constant artistic search and along the professional career. Is exactly what qualifies a human being from an Artist to an honorable artist. Someone who you really say : she said so !”- Sarra Marzguioui
Tamara Schlesinger: Director of Hen Hoose
“Tamara, is an amazing music and sound creative working hard to include and create work and a community for female and non binary folk. She has single handedly creative Hen Hoose an all women and non binary songwriting project, and given us all a chance to be part of a safe space where we can create without any boundaries.”- Amandah Wilkinson