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@anthonyhuseyin
Born in Urfa and raised in Istanbul, Anthony Hüseyin completed his master degree on jazz singing in the Netherlands. As a non-binary musician, performer and activist Anthony currently resides in Rotterdam and Berlin. In 2012 his debut album ‘Safran’ was launched at Paradiso, followed by an extensive international tour. During Istanbul Gezi Park Protests Hüseyin released ‘Mr. Prime Minister’, a song addressing Turkey’s social injustices. In 2015 Anthony displayed his debut performance piece, ‘Playing Possum - My Brothers Might Kill Me’, at the LAPSody Festival , Helsinki. Subsequently the same piece was staged at Rotterdam Gay Pride, Oxford Brookes University and Glasgow Buzzcut. In late 2017 Anthony's second album, 'The Lucky One’, a melancholic dark electro-pop mixed with tender jazz-pop vocals was released at Paradiso, Amsterdam and won the second prize on singer-songwriter category in The Netherlands. His first music video from the same album "We Make Sense Together" was selected and screen at Berlin Music Video Awards in 2018. “Potato Potato, Gute Beserung, Asshole Monologues, Fried Love, Lines are the performance art pieces Anthony wroteand performed in Rotterdam, Berlin and Vienna in different art spaces and festivals. While performing as a solo artist, after relocating himself in Berlin Anthony joined the QTBIPOC drag collective House of Living Colors and performed at events such as Queer Gazino: An Alternative Pride Celebration, Berghain, Tanztage Berlin. In January 2020 Anthony's long-awaited single release ‘Pretty Boys’ has been celebrated by a launch party at be’kech in Berlin, the video is featured by the national German queer magazine, Queer.de. Recently Anthony streamed 3 performances for the Marina Abramovic Institute's project Flux/Akış in Istanbul Sabanci Museum.
Lixue Lin-Siedler, Artist name Lin 凛, is an East-Asian zither musician in Berlin. She plays traditional and contemporary music on Chinese Guzheng, Japanese Koto and Bass Koto, regularly collaborating with both Western and non-Western instruments Lin has started learning Chinese zither Guzheng since the age of nine with Baojun Li after the school of Zhongshan Wang, famous virtuoso and educationist in zheng music and faculty of the China Conservatory.
@kuoko_music
KUOKO is an artist, songwriter and music producer born and based in Hamburg. The self-taught musician has not only dedicated herself to making electronic pop music, but also depicts her love for detail in her own drawings, videos and fashion experiments, always centering the process of making art as core of her personal journey. In her latest project she composed music for a theater play about the german colonial past in China ('Qingdao – A Messy Archive', Junges Nationaltheater Mannheim), working with an international team.
PH/ Florian Thoß @florian_thoss_
@mulaymusic
Inspired by Electronica, HipHop and R&B, Mulay creates her very own interpretation of Pop Music by translating her personal experiences, her broad musical background and her passion for performance into a new, exciting body of art. After studying music in the Netherlands and the UK, playing in a band and participating in several interdisciplinary art projects, the berlin-based singer, songwriter and producer is now focusing on her first solo release. A Debut EP introducing Mulay’s artistic vision and sensual, melancholic sound.
PH/ @kanaanbrothers