'The ability to live, be, and exist in your own center of gravity remains critical to Black queer artists whose identities already exist in opposition to normative systems of power.' Read the full story from ClarissaMBrooks ⬇️
, and Tiffany Gouche as the forebears who have widened the lane for artists to make music that speaks to their full lived experiences. “These artists are just living in it fully and listeners are singing to it because they can relate to the feeling of a song.”
Internally, the teams representing Black queer musicians are shifting as well. Danielle Quebrado, a publicist and founder of No Other Agency — where she represents various Black and brown queer artists such as Dreamer Isioma, Orion Sun, and Tanerélle — says that she’s made it her mission to make PR more human-oriented. “Because I work with artists that are considered unconventional, traditional industry protocol doesn’t work for them and it didn’t work for me,” she says.
Artist and Manager duo Asiahn Bryant and Kei Henderson have worked together for years to build out a world that centers a different way of being in the music industry. Bryant, whose R&B music and voice acting as Karma in Karma’s World, expands in and out of her identity as a Black lesbian, a fluidity that has been made easier with Henderson as her manager., has never lowered their standards even as opportunities to reach bigger audiences come to fruition.
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