In responce to this, you may be interested in attending one of the events at our Fest Forward Hip Hop Unbound festival happening at the Skirball Center (566 LaGuardia Place/Washington Square South) April 3-15, Retrospective: 30 years of Powerful Women in Hip Hop. The event will be a panel that brings together pioneering women in hip-hop who have worked as record label CEOs, presidents, and senior executives to share stories about how they climbed to the top of their profession and to reflect on the challenges they faced working in a male-dominated industry. Panel includes: Ann Carli, former senior exec at Jive; Lisa cortes, former president of Loose Cannon; Carmen Ashhurst, former president of Def Jam; Monica Lynch; former president of Tommy boy, and many others.


Check out the other events happening during the festival as well! General admission to most events is only $15. For more information check out:

www.hiphopunbound.com

www.myspace.com/skirballcenter

thanks, jay
been wondering how to get a hold of "Tennesse Slim Is The Bomb"

lil' kim executive produced her last two joints...(let the hate begin, lol)

...oh you did say r&b/soul context...i missed that...

Maybe the equipment's too difficult for them too operate.

And before the PC police jump down my throat, I think this is a completely valid argument. Ask Lawrence Summers.

Alicia Keys .. Krucial Keys is Alicia Keys and her partner. They produced majority of both Keys albums and Keyshia Cole's single "I just want it to be over".

im a female hiphop/ rnb producer..... but no one aint heard of ME yet. lol
im from london, england aswell, so it'll be even harder for me to get noticed.
good interview though

didn't read the comments so not sure if this has been said but, LAURYN HILL?!?!?!

DIVERSE: FEMALE PRODUCER TAKES
IPA Beat Battle Title

New York, April 4, 2006- Diverse "Da Producer" Whittaker winner of the MTP Beat Battle Invitational Ladies First in 2005, celebrates her second beat battle victory! Competing board to board with some of New York's finest indie male producers in the International Producers Association (IPA) Beat Battle this past Sunday, this phenomenal talent shut it down. Impressing the crowd with her eclectic mix of music including Asian sounds mixed with Dance hall, hip-hop mixed with Dance hall, and straight up hip-hop, this rising beatmaker showed spectators at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe exactly why she took the IPA Beat Battle title, giving her a second beat battle victory.

Background Info:
Whittaker is bringing pure heat. A rising music producer from Flatbush, Brooklyn, this lady beat maker seized the title “The Female Firespitter” at the MTP Beat Battle Invitational Ladies First 2005, winning first place. Once the judges heard the inferno coming from the small 5’4 frame they knew that a star was being born. “The Beat Battle was an experience. It made me feel great. I went there with the mentality of just wanting to have fun and see what it's like. I ended up winning and it made me feel like all of this isn't just for nothing.”

There’s no doubt that this curator puts in work. She is used to long nights - making beats with her Yamaha Motif keyboard, MPC 2000, Protools and other programs from 6 pm in the evening till 7 am the next morning. Originally from Colon Panama, Diverse is what the names implies “a multi- talented young woman” who infuses hip hop, Latin, R & B, soul and whatever moves her to create unforgettable tracks that make the head nod.

For Press & Serious Inquiries:

Please contact Tachelle at Tachelle@femmixx.com

I'm a female producer called s-H-a-n-E-L...got a few mentions to my name including Billboard, VH1 and others.
I'm 100% on my own with it...plus I'm a designer as well.
Some of the artists up there are executive producers on a couple of their pieces...but how much really did they do on the pure production side of things...I'm not out to hate.. but I'd like to know for real..
I wanna see more gurls doin it up from scratch..

u wanna hear 100% pure female production at it's very best yeh?..... check my track 'The Chase' on MySpace - this track has won awards...

www.myspace.com/shanelsworld

www.shanelsworld.com

Yeah this has been a topic for a long time now.
There are many female producers who know the equipment more than some men. Women producers are on the rise, but the industry is sexiest. Alot of refamle producers rather stay underground than go through the bull with a major label. I have more labels interested in me over seas than I have here in the US...that alone says alot.

I am a female emcee and a producer.Hit me up..
http://www.myspace.com/mccandilicious

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

ME!!! just because less then 10% of producers are female does not mean that we are not out there. Most females that come go into the production and recording side have to work twice as hard as the males. I myself am struggling i just had a band switch record labels cuz they did not feel confident with a woman mixing their tracks. When i know i can mix just as good if not better than some of the male producers that are my friends i might add.

There are many female artists who produce or at the very least co-produce their own albums. (Barbara Streisand, Faith Hill, Lauryn Hill, and many others) And there are quite a few of us out here producing other albums...and to the ninky-poop (tryin to be nice) who said we can't operate the equipment? First of all, a Producer is not always an engineer as well. A producer is a person (male OR female) who has a great ear and a great nack for working hand-in-hand with the engineer to create and bring the instrumentation together in such a manner as it makes "music." Ta-da! Secondly, there are also female Engineers...some who strictly engineer the sound (for ninky-poop, that means turn the knobs to adjust the sounds...i.e., operate the equipment all by herself) and some who are producing engineers as well.

hmmm interesting....
well im female and i make my own music

http://www.myspace.com/pokahontaz757
http://www.soundclick.com/pokahontaz

Im a female producer check me out on soundclick.com/blocksuppliersproductions . Its ayana

This topic is very interesting and i can see its been lasting for a while.

I'm a female studying music technology in england and i'm currently doing a dissertation around this topic.

I find it very intersting coming from england, as i find it hard to name more than 2 well known female producers from england. Although in the USA thier are a few.

Unfortuantly we will never be able to answer the question to why theres so few female producers.
But i think alot of people conclude it to gender, meaning women maynot be as good as men. Which i totally disagree with.

But i hope that posts like these incourage females to get out there and just go for it!!!

Thanks

P.S
If you are a female producer (especially from england) please feel free to visit this page:

www.myspace.com/fpn
add me and feel free to leave comments

I AM A FEMALE ARTIST, LYRICIST , PRODUCER,VOCALIST(SUMTIMES) ENGINEER AND DJ IN THE PROCESS. I AM GOOD NO DOUBT! I WORK WITH GRIME, RAP/HIPHOP AND RNB, I AM VERY OPEN MINDED ABOUT MUSIC AD DO NOT LIMIT MYSELF, I WILL DO ANY GENRE OF MUSIC I FIND INTERESTING, I JUST NEED TO OPEN MINDS OF OTHERS 1ST....THE FEMALES ARE IN FACT COMMING UP, BETTER THAN EVER, JUST A LITTLE SHY...SO IF U KNO ANY FEMALES IN THE GAME THAT ARE GOOD, PUSH DEM!!!!!

WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MSDARKS06

MY BEATS
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DPVULCANENT

MY CLIQU
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SOUTHELITE07