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The WiMN’s Front and Center is a weekly column that showcases accomplished women who work in the music and audio industries. We spotlight successful female performers, manufacturers, retailers, educators, managers, publicists, and everyone else in between. Want to be featured? Learn...

Audio company Shure has announced a year-long project titled "For Those Who Tour" to encourage artists and creators to tour and showcase their talents. Based in Chicago, For Those Who Tour give artists a place to stay for free...

https://youtu.be/1KAa5woluuM Evanescence is out now with the video for “Use My Voice,” the visuals follow frontwoman Amy Lee, her bandmates, and a diverse group of citizens as they unite for change and justice. The video for “Use My Voice,” was directed...

By Pauline France Louisa Branscomb, a clinical psychologist, songwriter, and pioneering bluegrass musician from Cartersville, Ga., can be credited for inspiring and empowering an army of female bluegrass musicians. She formed the first modern all-woman bluegrass band, the Bluegrass Liberators, and was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNNJHQej8Q Kandace Springs has released the video for “Solitude,” the second single off her forthcoming album The Women Who Raised Me (Out March 27 on Blue Note Records). Carmen McCrae’s great rendition of the Duke Ellington standard resonated deeply with Springs,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=gfhzuFOza1g 11 year old Lil Shan Shan has just released the video for her first single, "Sweet Tooth" which is produced by will.i.am of the iconic Black Eyed Peas, and coach on The Voice Kids UK. Ashanti “Lil Shan Shan” Johnson-Baiden...

https://youtu.be/diSnMnNrAJw The Women's International Music Network (WiMN) hosted a panel at the 2022 NAMM Show focusing on how to foster diversity, equity and inclusion in the music industry. Moderated by WiMN founder, Laura B. Whitmore the fifty minute discussion welcomed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrIgXDjyNa0 It is no secret that country music is male-dominated and gun-obsessed, but Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Brandi Carlile has just about had it. During her show at The Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California, Carlile debuted her song...

By Myki Angeline What started out as a music assignment, turned into a powerful, young women's anthem.  Isolde Fair had the task of creating a song based on Hilary Clinton's famous concession speech, by her music theory teacher Mary Ann...

By Lina Bhambhani    Daphne Oram London’s Southbank Centre’s festival called Deep Minimalism, established a theme to recognize women who collaborated in making electronic music from the past. This festival went all the way back to the 1950’s where they brought...