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Platoon Presents: She Runs the Boards Comes to Mexico to Promote Women’s Participation in the Music Industry and Combat Gender Inequality
She Runs The Boards, a global initiative led by women and supported by Platoon and ASCAP, brought together female artists, producers, and engineers in Mexico City to combat gender inequality in the music industry through collaborative song creation and empowerment.
She Runs The Boards Mexico included the participation of performers Lena Burke, Lucky and Valentina Perdido, in addition to the composers Mónica Vélez, Agua Tinta, Amanda Coronel, Covi Quintana, Luisa Almaguer, Marcela de la Garza and Shu Cantoral; the producers GRTSCH and RLPK; and audio engineers Karen Valdivieso, Lizzy Landau and Mariana Aguilar. The laboratory brought together Mónica Vélez, a recognized figure in the Hispanic music industry; experienced pianist Lena Burke; Luchy DR, a singer with great vocal versatility; Luisa Almaguer, representative of the trans community and a rising alternative musician in Mexico; talented young people like GRTSCH and RPLK, all to create songs, composed by Amanda Coronel and Marcela de la Garza, recognized in the Mexican regional music scene, and mixed by young engineers Michelle Anzo and Karen Valdivieso. The Puerto Rican Valentina Perdido, who participated as a performer and composer, expresses that it was “an honor to work with so many talented women.” “I’m still a small artist in New York, and coming to this big city and getting in the studio with all these women has been one of the most incredible experiences.”
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