It’s no secret that the music business is a male-dominated one. Nonetheless, many ladies within the business are taking actions to drive equality, and make the business a safer house for his or her friends. Some do that by empowering songs, collaborations, and creating platforms that may assist uplift up-and-coming feminine skills in numerous fields of the business. The battle for equality results in nice outcomes when girls collectively help one another and create options for change. For this reason once you uncover girls like TRAKGIRL and the actions she takes to drive equality and help for girls in music, you doff your hat to them.
For Shakari Boles, who writes and produces music beneath the stage-name TRAKGIRL, it’s “greater than music.” The studio is her completely satisfied place, and creating music retains her coronary heart beating. Nonetheless, whereas she’s doing all of that, she’s concurrently fascinated by methods to teach, empower, and convey extra girls into the room (particularly producers).
The Virginia native is a music producer who has helped artists like Stomach, Jhené Aiko, Omarion, and Luke James create hit data. She’s additionally the founding father of ‘The 7%’ a platform created out of the necessity to empower girls producers. The title comes from the statistic that girls make up about seven % of music producers and engineers within the US. Past creating ‘The 7%’ she has additionally partnered with Our bodies who share comparable visions.
In 2018 Spotify Launched a software (EQL) a web based listing of ladies serving to to boost the visibility of ladies working behind the scenes in music and who’re killing it within the business. TRAKGIRL is an advisory board member, and one of many staff of pros Spotify known as on to assist create EQL. She can be part of the Recording Academy’s ‘Variety and Inclusion Process Power’ which was fashioned within the wake of criticism a few lack of feminine illustration on the Grammy Awards and the business at massive.
TRAKGIRL is decided to assist all girls win!