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This is a list of female electronic musicians, composers, and sound artists who work in the various genres of
electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
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* Sara Abdel-Hamid (
Ikonika Ikonika (real name Sara Abdel-Hamid) is an electronic musician, producer and DJ often associated with Hyperdub Records. Her debut 12", "Please/Simulacrum" was released in 2008 on Hyperdub. Her debut album, ''Contact, Love, Want, Have'' was re ...
) * Muhsinah Abdul-Karim (
Muhsinah Muhsinah is an American Grammy Award nominated singer and producer, from Washington, D.C. She cites Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Nirvana and Chopin as among her influences. Musical career A graduate of the Duke Ellington Sch ...
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Gaelle Adisson Gaelle Adisson (born 1974) is an American deep house and downtempo singer-songwriter/producer born in New Jersey. Life style Adisson contributed vocals on the 1999 global hit " King of My Castle", a song by the Wamdue Project. "King of My Cas ...
* Nina Agzarian (
Nina Las Vegas Nina Elizabeth Agzarian (born 18 December 1984), known professionally by her stage name Nina Las Vegas, is an Australian radio host, DJ and music producer. From 2009 to 2014 she was the host of ''House Party'' on national radio station Triple J ...
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Susan Alcorn Susan Alcorn (born 1953) is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist. Life Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Alcorn started playing guitar at the age of twelve and quickly immersed herself in folk music, blues, and the pop music of the ...
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Liset Alea Liset Alea is a Cuban-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Paris, best known as a solo artist and lead singer in Nouvelle Vague. Career Early collaborations and solo work In 1998, Alea co-founded drum & bass/trip hop ...
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Etro Anime Etro Anime is an electronic band from New York City formed in 1998. Musical genres used by the band include drum and bass, deep house, trip hop, downtempo, and breakbeat. The name "Etro Anime" means "to be infinite in spirit." The band currentl ...
) * Nadia Ali * Dot Allison (
Massive Attack Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. The debut Massive Attack album ''Blue Lines'' was release ...
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One Dove One Dove were a Scottish electronic music group active in the early 1990s, consisting of Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael and Jim McKinven, a former member of Berlin Blondes and Altered Images. History Originally called Dove, the group released i ...
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Fatima Al Qadiri Fatima Al Qadiri ( ar, فاطمة القديري; born July 1981) is a Senegalese-born Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist. Biography Fatima Al Qadiri is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuray ...
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Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. She is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products (also known as dist ...
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Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (born 1978) is a musician and singer from County Kerry, Ireland. Until 2016, she was the lead singer for the traditional music group Danú, and from that year on she has been half of the electronica duo Aeons. Biography ...
(Aeons) * AMWE * Beth Anderson *
Laurie Anderson Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...
* Ruth Anderson * Karin Dreijer Andersson (
Fever Ray Karin Elisabeth Dreijer (born 7 April 1975) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer. Dreijer was one half of the electronic music duo the Knife, formed with their brother Olof Dreijer. Dreijer released their debut solo album under ...
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Jessie Andrews Jessie Andrews (born March 22, 1992) is a retired American adult film actress, designer, producer, model, DJ, entrepreneur and photographer. Andrews was active in the adult film industry from 2010 to 2015, where she was honored with several Act ...
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Leila Arab Leila Arab ( fa, لیلا عرب, born in 1971), professionally known as Leila, is an Iranian-born record producer and DJ based in London, England. She has released music on the labels Rephlex Records, Rephlex, XL Recordings, XL and Warp (record ...
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Mira Aroyo Mira Aroyo ( bg, Мира Аройо, ; born 11 July 1977) is a Bulgarian singer, musician, songwriter, DJ, and geneticist. She is best known as the keyboardist, co-lead vocalist, and co-songwriter of the electronic band Ladytron, which she co-fo ...
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Ladytron Ladytron are a largely British electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesizers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesizers), Daniel Hunt (synthesizers, guitar, vocals), and Reuben Wu (synthesize ...
) * Mathangi Arulpragasam ( M.I.A.) *
Tone Åse Tone Åse (born 24 February 1965 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, known from Norwegian choirs and jazz scenes. She is married to, and musically cooperating with jazz keyboardist Ståle Storløkken. Career After completing teacher educa ...
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Estelle Asmodelle Estelle Asmodelle, formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is a polymath. She is an Australian model, actress, belly dancer, musician, activist, abstract artist and physicist. She became Australia's first legally recognised transgender person ...
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Virginia Astley Virginia Astley (born 26 September 1959) is an English singer-songwriter most active during the 1980s and 1990s. Her songwriting career started in 1980. Her classical training influenced her as did a desire to be experimental with her music. Alt ...
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, performer and producer, originally from the Pacific Northwest and currently based in Los Angeles. Her work prominently employs Buchla modular synthesizers. She received acclaim for her albums ''Ears' ...
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Ana-Maria Avram Ana-Maria Avram (1961–2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist. Biography Avram was born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania.Schell Michael. "Women in (New) Music: Remembering Ana Maria Avram (1961–2017)", Second Inversio ...


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* Jillian Rose Banks (
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Danielle Baquet-Long Danielle Baquet-Long (July 31, 1982 – July 8, 2009) was a musician from Huntington Beach, California. She is known for her collaboration with husband Will Long in the band Celer, and for her extensive solo work under the moniker Chubby Wolf (m ...
( Celer, Chubby Wolf) * Tahliah Barnett (
FKA twigs Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 17 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylized as FKA twigs), is an English singer, songwriter, and dancer. Born and raised in Cheltenham, she became a backup dancer for numerous famous musicians aft ...
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Elaine Barkin Elaine "Ray" Barkin née Radoff (December 15, 1932 – February 22, 2023) was an American composer, writer, and educator. Early life Elaine Radoff was born in The Bronx, New York City, lived in the Amalgamated Houses, attended Bronx High School ...
* Natasha Barrett * Françoise Barrière *
Bebe Barron Bebe Barron ( – ) and Louis Barron ( – ) were two American pioneers in the field of electronic music. They are credited with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape composed in the United States, and the first entirely elec ...
* Sarah Barthel (
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Julianna Barwick Julianna Barwick is an American musician who composes using electronic loops. Her first album, '' The Magic Place'', was released in 2011. Music career Barwick has said that her music is influenced by her participation in church choir while gro ...
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Tasha Baxter Tasha Baxter (born 2 July 1981) is a South African singer-songwriter. Baxter won "Newcomer of the Year" and "Best Pop Album" at the 14th South African Music Awards for her album "Colour Of Me". Baxter is most well known for her debut solo studi ...
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Eve Beglarian Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist.Woodard, Josef"A Bird’s Eye, a Wonderer’s E ...
* Shannon Behm ( Storm Calysta) *
Anomie Belle Anomie Belle (an·o·me bel) is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and '' artivist'' from Seattle. Originally a classically-trained violinist and songwriter, Belle began writing and recording music as a child. Bell ...
* Lisa Bella Donna * Sydney Loren Bennett (
Syd tha Kyd Sydney Loren Bennett (born April 23, 1992), known professionally as Syd (formerly Syd tha Kyd), is an American musician and singer from Los Angeles, California. She initially gained recognition as a member of the alternative hip hop collective O ...
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Sister Bliss Ayalah Deborah Bentovim (born 30 December 1970), better known by her stage name Sister Bliss, is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ and songwriter. In the studio, she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong as one half of the pr ...
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Faithless Faithless are an English band that formed in 1995, with its core members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. Their first album, '' Reverence'', was released in 1996 and their most recent, ''All Blessed'', in 2020. They have sold millions ...
) * Elizabeth Bernholz (
Gazelle Twin Elizabeth Bernholz (née Walling), b. 1981 in Canterbury, England, and better known by her stage name Gazelle Twin, is an electronic music composer, producer and musician who is currently based in Leicestershire, England. She is unsigned and re ...
) * Johanna Magdalena Beyer * Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (
Enya Enya Patricia Brennan (; ga, Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin; born 17 May 1961), known professionally by the mononym Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician known for modern Celtic music. She is the best-selling Irish solo arti ...
) * Sara Blackwood (
Dubstar Dubstar are an English indie-dance duo,Note: An American indie hip hop artist has released some tracks and video via the Internet under the name "Dubstar", but is not connected to the band in any way. performing songs with hints of Britpop, dre ...
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Grimes Claire Elise Boucher (; born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her early work has been described as extending from "lo-fi R&B" to futuristic dance-pop, and has in ...
) * Michèle Bokanowski *
Kitty Brazelton Kitty Brazelton (born 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a New York-based American composer, bandleader, improviser, singer/songwriter, and instrumentalist. She has released albums and fronted bands across varied genres, including contemporary ...
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Fiona Brice Fiona Brice is an English composer, orchestral arranger and violinist. Brice writes orchestral arrangements for various artists and has toured and recorded with several major pop and rock acts, including Placebo, Kanye West, Sugababes, Boy Geo ...
* Phillipa Brown ( Ladyhawke) *
Barbara Buchholz Barbara Buchholz (8 December 195910 April 2012) was a Berlin-based German musician and composer. She was one of the leading theremin players of the world. Life Buchholz was born in Duisburg. She studied flute, guitar, bass guitar and singing at ...
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Kate Bush Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer. In 1978, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single "Wuthering Heights (song), Wuthering Heights", ...


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Geneviève Calame Geneviève Calame (30 December 1946 – 8 October 1993) was a Swiss people, Swiss pianist, music educator and composer. Life Geneviève Calame was born in Geneva of Greco-Italian ancestry, and studied the piano in Geneva with Lottie Morel and then ...
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Allison Cameron Allison Cameron, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ''House'', portrayed by American actress Jennifer Morrison. An immunologist, Cameron was a member of Dr. Gregory House's team of handpicked specialists at Princeton-Plains ...
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Janet Cardiff Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art worl ...
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Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving ...
* Robin Miriam Carlsson (
Robyn Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two Billboard Hot 100, ''Bil ...
) * Caroline Cecil (
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Michelle Chamuel Michelle Jacqueline Chamuel (born 1986) is an American singer, songwriter and music producer. She has released several works as a solo artist and in partnership with others. She was the lead singer of the band Ella Riot and the runner-up on seaso ...
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Maria Chavez Maria Chavez is an improviser, curator and sound artist from Lima, Peru. Her sound installations, visual objects and live turntable performances focus on the values of the accident and its unique, complicated possibilities with sound emitting machin ...
* Cocoa Chanelle *
Sharon Cheslow Sharon Cheslow (born October 5, 1961) is an American musician, composer, artist, writer, photographer, educator, and archivist. In 1981, she formed Chalk Circle, Washington, D.C.'s first all-female punk band. She has since become an accomplishe ...
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Mary Ellen Childs Mary Ellen Childs (born April 13, 1957 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American composer and multimedia artist and founder of the ensemble Crash. She grew up as a dancer and writes music often influenced by dance rhythms. She currently administers t ...
* Insook Choi *
Dorit Chrysler Dorit Chrysler, born as Dorit Kreisler, is a renowned Austrian born composer, thereminist and sound artist. She has written music for films, TV and video art featured in museum collections such as the Guggenheim and MoMA. Dorit co-founded the New ...
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Suzanne Ciani Suzanne Ciani (; born June 4, 1946) is an American musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career ha ...
* Anne Clark * Annie Clark (
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Alice Cohen Alice Cohen (born November 25, 1958) also known by the stage name Alice Desoto, is a New York City-based American singer, songwriter, musician and fine artist. She has performed as the lead vocalist for two major label bands, the Vels and Die Mon ...
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Beth Coleman Beth Coleman (also known as M. Singe, DJ M. Singe, and DJ Singe) is an American female electronic music composer and academic in the field of new media studies. Her work has been featured in a variety of venues such as the Whitney Museum of Americ ...
* Maya Jane Coles (Nocturnal Sunshine) * Nik Colk Void (
Factory Floor Factory Floor are a London-based band formed in 2005. They have been described as 'post-industrial', using live drums, synthesizers and noise. History The band formed in 2005, originally comprising Gabriel Gurnsey and Mark Harris, who were then ...
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Juliette Commagere Juliette Commagere is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who was formerly the lead singer and keytar player of the band Hello Stranger. In 2008 she began a solo career with the release of ''Queens Die Proudly''. Commagere has also performe ...
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Cindy Cox Cindy Cox (born 1961) is an American composer and performer, and Professor of Music. Cox grew up in Houston. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Texas Christian University, and her Masters and Doctorate in 1992 from Indiana Un ...
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Kara-Lis Coverdale Kara-Lis Coverdale, also known as K-LC, is a Canadian composer, musician, producer, based in Montreal, Quebec. Coverdale is known equally for her piano, organ, and keyboard work as she is for her experimental electronic projects; often her work ...
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Romy Madley Croft The xx are an English indie rock band from Wandsworth, London, formed in 2005. The band consists of Romy Madley Croft (guitar, vocals), Oliver Sim (bass guitar, vocals), Jamie Smith, also known as Jamie xx (beats, MPC, record production), and ...
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* Dani Deahl * Constance Demby * Shikhee D'iordna (
Android Lust Android Lust is the solo project of Shikhee D’iordna, that combines elements of rock, electropop, electro-industrial and classical styles into a blend of music that she describes as "electronic and dark." History Shikhee D’iordna was born in ...
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Marie Davidson Marie Davidson (born 1987) is a French-Canadian electronic musician and producer from Montreal. Career Davidson was part of the duo Les Momies de Palerme, along with Xarah Dion. Their album, ''Brûlez ce coeur'', was released on Constellation Re ...
* Camille Davila * Charlotte de Witte * Delia Derbyshire * Daniela Di Lillo (
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Emma Lou Diemer Emma Lou Diemer (born November 24, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus, and electronic media. Diemer is a keyboard performer and over ...
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Kui Dong Kui Dong (董葵, born 1966, Beijing, China) is a Chinese-American composer, musician, and teacher. She is known for her music which has often incorporated traditional Chinese music into contemporary contexts, and is currently Professor of Music at ...
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Suzanne Doucet Suzanne Doucet is a German new-age musician, producer, composer, and singer, best known for being one of the founders of new age music. She was the founder of the first new age music store in Hollywood, California ''Only New Age Music'' in 1987 ...
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Candida Doyle Candida Mary Doyle (born 25 August 1963) is an English musician who is keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984. She joined her brother, drummer Magnus Doyle in the line-up replacing the prev ...
( Pulp) * Anne Dudley ( Art of Noise) * Erica Dunham ( Unter Null)


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Hanin Elias Hanin Elias (born 31 May 1972) is a Syrian German industrial/techno artist. She was a member of Atari Teenage Riot and is now a solo artist. After Atari Teenage Riot's non-definitive break in 2000, and the subsequent death of Carl Crack fro ...
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Kate Elsworth Kate Elsworth is an Australian-born electronic dance music DJ, vocalist and songwriter based in London. Biography In 2009, she formed a dance band with her New York-based co-producer and business partner, DJ Exacta. She has worked with other ...
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Nic Endo Nic Endo (born January 7, 1976) is a Japanese-German- American noise musician who plays with the German digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot. The daughter of a Japanese mother and a German father, Endo was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, US ...
* Liz Enthusiasm ( Freezepop) *
Mary Epworth Mary Epworth is an English singer, songwriter, and composer. In 2012, Epworth released her debut album, ''Dream Life''. Strong radio support included singles "Black Doe" and "Long Gone" playlisted on BBC Radio 6 Music, and "Black Doe" picked as ...
* Kristin Erickson ( Kevin Blechdom) *
Pozzi Escot Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Life Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru, her father was a French pro ...
* Laura Escudé *
Esthero Esthero ( ; born Jenny-Bea Englishman on December 23, 1978 in Stratford, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who lives in Los Angeles, California. The name ''Esthero'' refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself ...
* Brooke Evers *
Carolina Eyck Carolina Eyck (born 26 December 1987) is a German- Sorb musician specialising in playing the Theremin, an electronic instrument. Her performances around the world have helped to promote the unusual musical instrument. Biography German-born music ...


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* Nanna Øland Fabricius ( Oh Land) * Johanna Fateman ( MEN, Le Tigre) *
Maddalena Fagandini Maddalena Fagandini (30 August 1929 – 29 November 2012) was an English electronic musician and television producer. She was employed by the BBC in the early 1950s, as part of their Italian Service, before becoming part of the pioneering BBC Ra ...
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Beatriz Ferreyra Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer. She lives and works in Hameau de Hodeng, France. Early work and study Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. S ...
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Lauren Flax Lauren Flax is a DJ, songwriter, and producer. Lauren currently is a member of the Brooklyn-based band CREEP with Lauren Dillard. Lauren was also the Fischerspooner tour DJ from 2008 to 2011. In 2009, Lauren released her first single as a solo ar ...
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Ellen Fullman Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is an American composer, instrument builder, and performer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is known for her 70-foot (21-meter) Long String instrument, tu ...


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* Charlotte Gainsbourg * Diamanda Galas * Anja Garbarek * Merrill Garbus ( Tune-Yards) * Katie Geraghty ( Koven) * Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ( Lady Gaga) * Alejandra Ghersi ( Arca) *
Beth Gibbons Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965) is an English singer and songwriter. She is the singer and lyricist for the band Portishead, which has released three albums. She released an album with Rustin Man, '' Out of Season'', in 2002, followed by an ...
( Portishead) * Gillian Gilbert ( New Order) * Amber Giles (Mija) * Miquette Giraudy * Alice Glass ( Crystal Castles) *
Alison Goldfrapp Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp (born 13 May 1966) is an English musician and record producer, known as the vocalist of English electronic music duo Goldfrapp. Early life Goldfrapp was born on 13 May 1966, in Enfield, London, the youngest o ...
( Goldfrapp) * Danielle Gooding ( Flava D) * Annie Gosfield *
Cary Grace Cary Grace is an American recording artist, singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. She plays guitar and analogue synthesizers. Her music is strongly influenced by classic British psychedelic and progressive rock as well as space r ...
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Antye Greie Antye Greie (aka AGF or Poemproducer) is a vocalist, musician, composer, producer, and new media artist. Life Greie was born and raised in East Germany. Her work involves speech combined with electronic music. She works on sound installations, ...
(AGF) * Ana Simina Grigoriu *
Beverly Grigsby Beverly Grigsby (née Pinsky, January 11, 1928 – August 22, 2022) was an American composer, musicologist and electronic/computer music pioneer. Early life Beverly Pinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied music as a child. She moved to ...
* Björk Guðmundsdóttir (
Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct three-octave vocal range and eccentric persona, she has de ...
) * Hildur Guðnadóttir *
Shilpa Gupta Shilpa Gupta (born 1976) is a contemporary Indian artist, she lives and works in Mumbai, India where she has studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts from 1992 to 1997.She had solo shows at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati ...
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Gudrun Gut Gudrun Gut (born 20 May 1957) is a German electronic musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and founder of the Monika Enterprise. She grew up in the Lüneburger Heide and moved to West Berlin in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the Hoc ...


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Emily Haines Emily Savitri Haines (born 25 January 1974) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter of the rock band Metric and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she has pe ...
* Laurel Halo * Ayumi Hamasaki * Kathleen Hanna ( Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Julie Ruin) * Elizabeth Vanessa Harper (
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) * Elizabeth Harris ( Grouper) * Anna-Catherine Hartley ( Uffie) * Miho Hatori ( Cibo Matto) *
Sorrel Hays Sorrel Hays (August 6, 1941 – February 9, 2020) was an American pianist, composer and artist. Life Hays was born Doris Ernestine Hays was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1985 adopted her grandmother's family name of Sorrel. She studied music ...
* Jennifer Heaps ( Imogen Heap) *
Heather Heart Heather Lotruglio (born 1971), better known as Heather Heart, is an American (New York) based Techno DJ. In 1991, her zine called Under One Sky laid the foundation for a network of techno music fans across the US. In 1992, she began DJing, espec ...
* Helicopter Girl *
Mara Margaret Helmuth Margaret Mara Helmuth (born 1957) is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in music. After completing her education, H ...
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Holly Herndon Holly Herndon (born 1980) is an American composer, musician, sound artist and sound designer based in Berlin, Germany. After studying composition at Stanford University and completing her Ph.D. at Stanford University's Center for Computer Resea ...
* Chloé Herry ( Clozee) * Caroline Hervé ( Miss Kittin) * Victoria Christina Hesketh ( Little Boots) *
Clara Hill Clara Hill is a musician born in Berlin. She writes, produces and performs with a varied array of artists. Her discography includes 6 full-length albums (Sonar Kollektiv Berlin, Tapete Records, King Britt Archives), and many 12“s featuring names ...
* Joanne Judith-Mary Hill (
Sydney Blu Sydney Blu (born Joanne Judith-Mary Hill; November 22, 1977)
is a Shelley Hirsch Shelley Hirsch (born June 9, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York) is an American vocalist, performance artist, composer, improviser, and writer. She won a DAAD Residency Grant in Berlin 1992, a Prix Futura award in 1993, and multiple awards ...
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Mary Ann Hobbes Mary Anne Hobbs (born 16 May 1964) is an English DJ and music journalist from Lancashire, England. She currently hosts the BBC Radio 6 Music weekday mid-morning show, Monday to Friday, 10:30am1pm, and her ''6 Music Recommends'' show, Wednesda ...
* Julia Holter * Yuka Honda ( Cibo Matto, Plastic Ono Band) *
Brenda Hutchinson __NOTOC__ Brenda Hutchinson is an American composer and sound artist who has developed a body of work based on a perspective about interacting with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. Hu ...


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Susie Ibarra Susie Ibarra (born Anaheim, November 15, 1970) is a contemporary composer and percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and indigenous musicians. One of SPIN's "100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music," she is kno ...
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Jean Eichelberger Ivey Jean Eichelberger Ivey (July 3, 1923 – May 2, 2010) was an American composer who produced an extensive and diverse catalog of solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works as an innovator and "respected electronic composer." Early Life and Educ ...
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Adina Izarra Adina Izarra (born 1959) is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer. Biography Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph.D. in composition from York Univer ...
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Ill-esha ill-esha (pronounced ill-EE-sha) is a Canadian electronic music artist, producer, singer, and DJ known for her work in the bass music world, as well as her unique style of singing and DJing simultaneously. Biography From an early age ill-esha ha ...


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Elly Jackson La Roux ( ) is an English synthpop act formed in 2008 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid. The act's debut album ''La Roux'' (2009) was a critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy Award and producing hit singles su ...
( La Roux) * Samantha James * Jane Jarboe ( Jarboe) *
Joan Jeanrenaud Joan Jeanrenaud ( Dutcher; born January 25, 1956) is an American cellist. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she played with the LLP Kronos Quartet from 1978 until 1999, when, after a sabbatical, she left to pursue a solo career and collaborations ...
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Val Jeanty Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian electronic music composer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music who evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious self-defined as “ Afro-Electronica.” She i ...
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Kim Jin-hi Jin Hi Kim (born February 6, 1957 in Incheon, South Korea) is a composer and performer of '' komungo'' and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist. Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing ''geomungo'' (거문고, a Korean fretted boa ...
* Danielle Johnson (
Computer Magic Danielle "Danz" Johnson (born February 20, 1989), known professionally as Danz CM and formerly Computer Magic, is an American musician and producer based in New York City. She is a singer, songwriter, composer, music producer, DJ, and the founder ...
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Emika Ema Jolly (born 8 January 1986), better known by her stage name Emika, is an English electronic musician of Czech origin (her mother is from Příbram) currently residing in Berlin. Her self-titled debut album was released in October 2011 via ...
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Nil Karaibrahimgil Ferhan Nil Karaibrahimgil (born 17 October 1976) is a Turkish singer and songwriter, mostly noted for her distinct lyrics. Nil's passion and admiration for music stems from her father, Suavi Karaibrahimgil, who is also a musician although he is ...
* Laura Karpman *
Lydia Kavina Lydia Evgenevna Kavina (; born 8 September 1967) is a Russian-British theremin player, based in Oxfordshire, UK. The granddaughter of Léon Theremin's first cousin, Soviet anthropologist and primatologisMikhail Nesturkh Kavina was born in Mosco ...
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Trish Keenan Patricia Anne Keenan (28 September 1968 – 14 January 2011) was an English musician and singer. She was the lead vocalist and founding member of the electronic band Broadcast, which she formed in 1995. The band released a total of five studio a ...
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Broadcast Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
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Bevin Kelley Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) is an American electronic musician and multimedia composer. She is celebrated as an "icon of deviant and cerebral electronic music". Early life and education She was born Bevin Kelley in 1971. Her younger brot ...
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Blevin Blectum Blevin Blectum (born Bevin Kelley) is an American electronic musician and multimedia composer. She is celebrated as an "icon of deviant and cerebral electronic music". Early life and education She was born Bevin Kelley in 1971. Her younger brot ...
) * Alicia Keys * Natasha Khan ( Bat for Lashes) * Morgan Kibby * Heidi Kilpeläinen (
HK119 HK119 is the alter ego of Finnish multimedia artist, singer and recording artist Heidi Kilpeläinen, who lives and works in London, England. Background Having graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004 with an MA i ...
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Susanne Kirchmayr Susanne Kirchmayr aka Electric Indigo (born 15 December 1965) is an Austrian music producer, Techno DJ and feminist who performs under the name Electric Indigo. Her stage name is a combined reference to her favorite color indigo and her affinity ...
(Electric Indigo) * Judy Klein *
Jutta Koether Jutta Koether (born 1958) is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and Berlin
* Merja Kokkonen ( Islaja) *
Barbara Kolb Barbara Kolb (born February 10, 1939) is an American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units ( motifs or figures). Kolb's musical style can be identified by her use ...
* Rachael Kozak ( Hecate) *
Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz (russian: Нина Кравиц, Nina Kravits) is a Russian DJ, music producer and singer. Early life and career Kraviz was born and raised in Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. She moved to Moscow to study dentistry where she later gained h ...
* Kateryna Kremko ( Miss K8) *
Monika Kruse Monika Kruse (born 23 July 1971) is a German techno DJ/producer and record label owner, with a career in electronic music spanning more than 25 years. She played an influential role in the early Munich rave scene during the early 1990s and was amo ...
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Christina Kubisch Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from h ...
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JoAnn Kuchera-Morin JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (born 1951) is a professor of Media Arts & Technology and of Music." A composer and researcher specializing in multimodal interaction, she is the Creator and Director of the AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute a ...
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Anne LeBaron Alice Anne LeBaron (b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, May 30, 1953) is a United States composer and harpist. Anne LeBaron holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama (1974), an M.A. in music from the State University of New Yor ...
* Anne LaBerge *
Martha Ladly Martha Jane Ladly is a Canadian academic, designer and musician. She is a professor of design at OCAD University. Ladly also has had a long career as a musician and achieved international fame as part of rock band Martha and the Muffins. She ha ...
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Jessy Lanza Jessy Lanza is a Canadian electronic songwriter, producer, and vocalist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She has released three albums, '' Pull My Hair Back'' (2013), '' Oh No'' (2016) and '' All the Time'' (2020), to critical praise on UK label H ...
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Elodie Lauten Elodie Lauten (October 20, 1950 – June 3, 2014) was a French-born American composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist. Biography Born in Paris, France as Genevieve Schecroun, and educated in Paris at the Lycée Claude Monet, the ...
* Jennifer Lee ( TOKiMONSTA) * Jonna Lee ( iamamiwhoami) * Kathy Yaeji Lee ( Yaeji) * Victoria Legrand ( Beach House) *
Šarlote Lēnmane Latvia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 which took place on 20 November 2010, in Minsk, Belarus. The Latvian broadcaster Latvijas Televīzija (LTV) selected the Latvian entry for the 2010 contest internally. Before Jun ...
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Annie Lennox Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the New wave music, new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician D ...
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Eurythmics Eurythmics were a British pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. They were both previously in The Tourists, a band which broke up in 1980. The duo released their first studio album, '' In the Garden'', in 1981 to little succ ...
) * Amelie Lens *
Tania Leon Tania Leon, born Ruth Naomi Leon, (Wellington, Western Cape, Wellington, May 4, 1945 – Nigtevecht, August 15, 1996) was a South African born teacher and women's activist. She was a member of the anti-apartheid movement in the Netherlands and of ...
* Jordana LeSesne (
1.8.7 Jordana LeSesne, formerly known as 1.8.7, is an American musician and producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She now produces and performs as Jordana. She became known in the mid-1990s as a drum and bass producer. Vibe magazine called her "one ...
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Elainie Lillios Elainie Lillios is a composer. Lillios studied composition with Larry Austin, Jonty Harrison, Jon Christopher Nelson, Joseph Klein, and others. She has been a professor at Bowling Green State University since 2000. She was awarded First Prize in ...
* Annea Lockwood * Paige Lopynski (
BONNIE X CLYDE Bonnie X Clyde (professionally known as BONNIE X CLYDE) is an American electronic dance music duo formed in 2015 by Daniel Litman and Paige Lopynski. The duo originates from Fairfax, Virginia but started BXC in Miami, Florida, and are now based i ...
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Olivia Louvel Olivia Louvel is a French-born British composer and artist whose work is presented in the form of sound recordings, sound art installations, video art, and live performances. She won an Ivor Novello Award in Sound Art at The Ivors Classical Awa ...
* Olivia Lufkin *
Anna Lunoe Anna Lunoe (born 26 May) is an Australian DJ, vocalist, songwriter and producer now living in Los Angeles, California. Lunoe has performed at music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza, Ultra, TomorrowWorld and Hard Summer. She now hosts ...


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Annie Mac Annie Mac (born 18 July 1978), is an Irish DJ, broadcaster and writer. She hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1, including BBC Switch and ''Future Sounds''. She also DJed in various locations, including hosting her AMP (Annie Mac Presents) ...
) * Georgia Magree ( GG Magree) * Kazu Makino ( Blonde Redhead) * Rekha Malhotra ( DJ Rekha) * Elizabeth Maniscalco (
Elizabeth Rose Elizabeth Rose may refer to: * Elizabeth Rose (nun), 12th-century nun * Elizabeth Rose, Lady of Kilravock (1747–1815), Scottish literary critic and author * Elizabeth Rose (musician) Elizabeth Maniscalco, better known by her stage name Elizabet ...
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Ladytron Ladytron are a largely British electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The group consists of Helen Marnie (lead vocals, synthesizers), Mira Aroyo (vocals, synthesizers), Daniel Hunt (synthesizers, guitar, vocals), and Reuben Wu (synthesize ...
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Carolina Márquez Carolina Márquez (born 22 September 1975), is a Colombian-Italian singer, songwriter, dancer and record producer who resides in Rome. Márquez left Colombia in 1986 for Spain to study drama at the '' Escuela de Arte Dramático'' in Barcelona. ...
* Josie Martin (
Candyland ''Candy Land'' (also ''Candyland'') is a simple racing board game published by Hasbro. The game requires no reading and minimal counting skills, making it suitable for young children. No strategy is involved as players are never required to ma ...
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Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka (born 1958, Washington, DC) is an American composer, musician, and sound artist active in the field of contemporary classical music and experimental music. Her work encompasses contemporary classical composition, improvisation, ele ...
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Riz Maslen Riz Maslen is an English electronic musician. During the mid-1990s, she worked with 4hero and Future Sound of London. After playing keyboards for the Beloved, she took out a loan, built a home studio and created her first albums there. In 1995 ...
(Neotropic) * Sachiko Matsubara (Filament, I.S.O. ONJO) *
Keiko Matsui , is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music. Biography Keiko Matsui was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Emiko, took her to her first piano lesson in the June following her fifth birthday. Japanese t ...
* Kaffe Matthews * Agathe Max * Lauren Mayberry (
CHVRCHES Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriving f ...
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Zia McCabe Zia McCabe (born Aimee Springer; June 2, 1975) is an American musician and realtor. She plays keyboards, percussion and bass guitar, and is a member of American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. She is also a solo DJ, and part of a six-pi ...
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Linda McCartney Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney ( Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, vegetarian cookbook author and advocate, and entrepreneur. She was the keyboardist in th ...
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Caralee McElroy Caralee McElroy (born December 27, 1983) is a Brooklyn-based American multi-instrumentalist who has played in the bands Xiu Xiu, XXL, and Cold Cave. Biography McElroy was born in Olympia, WA and was raised in Modesto, California and Seattle, Wa ...
( Cold Cave, Xiu Xiu) * Christina McGeehan (
RYAT Ryat (often stylized as RYAT and pronounced "riot") is an experimental electronic music project created by female producer Christina Amalie Mattei, also known as Christina Teleaer, based in Los Angeles, California. She has released music on Obvio ...
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Priscilla McLean Priscilla McLean (née Taylor; born May 27, 1942) is an American composer, performer, video artist, writer, and music reviewer. Life Priscilla Taylor was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the daughter of business manager Conrad Taylor and school ...
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Cindy McTee Cindy McTee (born February 20, 1953) is an American composer and educator. Early life and education McTee was born in Tacoma, Washington. She studied at Pacific Lutheran University, the Academy of Music in Kraków, Yale University, and the Univers ...
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Elle Mehrmand Elle Mehrmand is a new media performance artist and musician. Mehrmand's work combines the body and electronics. Her performance art work has been presented at museums, galleries and art festivals throughout the Americas. She is a member of the ba ...
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Rosa Menkman Rosa Menkman (born 1983) is a Dutch art theorist, curator, and visual artist specialising in glitch art and Image resolution, resolution theory. She investigates video compression, feedback, and glitches, using her exploration to generate art ...
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Takako Minekawa is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and writer. Career In her childhood, Minekawa acted in film and television. Minekawa's first musical venture was playing in Lolita, a band she formed with several college friends. Afterwards, she perf ...
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Maria Minerva Maria Juur (born 15 March 1988), better known by her stage name Maria Minerva, is an Estonian musician and activist. Maria Minerva is the recipient of two Estonian Music Awards. Her releases have received critical acclaim from music publicati ...
* Aira Mitsuki * Kelela Mizanekristos ( Kelela) * Juana Molina * Meredith Monk * Charlotte Moorman (TV Cello) * Barbara Morgenstern *
Nicole Morier Nicole "Coco" Morier (lives in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. She began her career in 2002 as one half of the electronic rock duo Electrocute before becoming a songwriter for artists includ ...
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Electrocute Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. The term "electrocution" was coined ...
) * Ikue Mori * Nicole Moudaber * Blane Muise (
Shygirl Blane Muise (born May 4, 1993), better known by her stage name Shygirl, is an English rapper, DJ, singer, songwriter and co-head/founder of record label and collective Nuxxe. Shygirl's music incorporates elements of hip house, industrial hip-ho ...
) * Georgia Anne Muldrow *
Róisín Murphy Róisín Marie Murphy ( , ; born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and record producer. She first became known in the 1990s as one half of the pop duo Moloko alongside English musician Mark Brydon. After the breakup of Moloko, she em ...
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Yukimi Nagano Yukimi Eleanora Nagano (born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is the vocalist for the Swedish electronic group Little Dragon. Career Early career Nagano first made a record at the age of 18 with Andreas Saag (Swell Sessi ...
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Little Dragon Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion), Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards). Little Dragon's ...
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Audrey Napoleon Audrey Napoleon is an American electronic music producer, DJ and entrepreneur. Creative direction Between 2011 and 2013, Napoleon created a short film for her single "Poison", co-directing the styling and makeup. In 2012, Napoleon collab ...
* Laura Naukkarinen ( Lau Nau) *
Amy X Neuburg Amy X Neuburg (born Cheltenham, England) is an American composer, vocalist, and electronic musician. Education and career She holds a B.M. degree in voice from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a B.A. in linguistics from Oberlin College, and ...
* Miriam Nervo ( NERVO) * Olivia Nervo ( NERVO) * Christine Newby ( Cosey Fanni Tutti,
Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group formed in 1975 in Kingston upon Hull by Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson, and Chris Carter (British musician), Chris Carter. They are widely regarded as pi ...
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Chris & Cosey Chris & Cosey, sometimes known as Carter Tutti, are a musical duo formed in 1981, consisting of couple Chris Carter (electronics) and Cosey Fanni Tutti (electronics, guitar, cornet), both previously (and currently the sole surviving) members o ...
) * Dika Newlin * Chelsea Nikkel ( Princess Chelsea) * Merrill Beth Nisker ( Peaches) *
Sarah Nixey Sarah Anne Nixey (born 21 December 1973 in Dorset, England) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the vocalist in Black Box Recorder. Her debut solo album, '' Sing, Memory'', was released on 19 February 2007, followed by ''Brave Tin Sol ...
* Tujiko Noriko *
Doris Norton Doris Norton is an Italian pioneer of electronic and computer music.Marco Giorgi. "Norton, Doris". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Norton was the first musical endorser for Apple computers. ...
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Jacula Jacula was an Italian rock music, rock band founded in 1969 in Milan as an experiment by Antonio Bartoccetti, Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and Mediumship, medium Franz Porthenzy. Jacula's music was considered innovative for the time in p ...
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Jacqueline Nova Jacqueline Nova Sondag (1935–1975) was a Colombian musician, author and composer. She is often cited as having initiated Colombia's electroacoustic musical practices. Life Jacqueline Nova Sondag was born 6 January 1935, in Ghent, Belgium. Her fa ...


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Jocy de Oliveira Jocy de Oliveira (born 11 April 1936) is a Brazilian pianist, multimedia artist and composer. Biography Jocy de Oliveira was born in Curitiba and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied in São Paulo with Joseph Kliass, in Paris with Marguerit ...
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Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
* Valerie Olukemi A "Kemi" Olusanya (
Kemistry Valerie Olukemi A "Kemi" Olusanya (13 October 1963 – 25 April 1999), commonly known by her stage name Kemistry, was a leading English drum and bass DJ of the early 1990s, half of duo Kemistry & Storm, and co-founder of the Metalheadz rec ...
) * Yoko Ono * Daphne Oram *
Ela Orleans Ela Orleans (born 1971 in Oświęcim, commonly known by its German name of Auschwitz) is a Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Orleans uses electronic and acoustic instruments (including synthesisers, guitar, violin, piano) to creat ...
* Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde ( WondaGurl) * Christine Ott *
Tera de Marez Oyens Tera de Marez Oyens (5 August 1932 – 29 August 1996) was a Dutch composer. De Marez Oyens was born in Velsen as Woltera Gerharda Wansink. She studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with a major in piano, studying the instrument with Jan Od ...


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Else Marie Pade Else Marie Pade (2 December 1924 – 18 January 2016) was a Danish composer of electronic music. She was educated as a pianist at the ''Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium'' ( Royal Danish Academy of Music) in Copenhagen. She studied compositio ...
* Karin Park *
Andrea Parker (DJ) Andrea Parker is a British electronic music producer, record label proprietor and DJ from Pembury, Kent, England. Biography Despite having a background in cello playing, Parker was influenced by electronic pioneers such as Art Of Noise and J ...
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Elizabeth Parker (composer) Elizabeth Parker is a British film and television composer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1978 until the workshop's closure. Biography Parker graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in music, after which sh ...
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Ayria Ayria is a Canadian futurepop/synthpop musical project formed in early 2003 by Toronto's Jennifer Parkin following her departure from the futurepop and EBM band Epsilon Minus. Biography The first Ayria album, ''Debris'', was released on Alf ...
) * Zeena Parkins * Chantal Passamonte ( Mira Calix) * Maggi Payne *
Annette Peacock Annette Peacock is an American composer, musician, songwriter, producer, and arranger. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s. Biography Annette Peacock was writing ...
* Sarah Peebles * Hannah Peel * Susan Philipsz *
Liz Phillips Liz Phillips (born 1951) is an American artist specializing in sound art and interactive art. A pioneer in the development of interactive sound sculpture, Phillips' installations explore the possibilities of electronic sound in relation to livin ...
* Elizabeth Hayden Pizer *
Lena Platonos Lena Platonos (born 21 October 1951) is a Greek pianist and composer of electronic and art music. She took a leading role in the electronic music scene in the 1980s, while her work constituted an inspiration for Greek electronic musicians in the ...
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Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widel ...
* Andrea Polli *
Paula P-Orridge Paula P-Orridge (born Paula Jean Brooking, 23 February 1963), also known as Alaura O'Dell, is an English musician, writer, and entrepreneur. Career P-Orridge's musical career began in 1979 when she met musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge while ...
* Valerie Anne Poxleitner (
Lights Light is an electromagnetic radiation, part of which stimulates the sense of vision. Light or Lights may also refer to: Illumination * Light bulb * Traffic light Arts and entertainment Music * Lights (musician) (born 1987), Canadian singer-son ...
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Ruth Radelet Ruth Radelet (, born April 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She is best known for her work as the lead vocalist in the electronic band Chromatics, formed in 2001. A native of Portland, Oregon, Radelet joined Chromatics i ...
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Éliane Radigue Éliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created with the ARP 2500 modul ...
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Maja Ratkje Maja can refer to: Places * Maja, Croatia, a village * Maja, Banten, a subdistrict in Lebak Regency, Banten, Indonesia ** Maja railway station * Maja, West Java, a subdistrict in Majalengka Regency, West Java, Indonesia * Maja River, a tributar ...
* Honey Redmond ( Miss Honey Dijon) *
Sally Johnston Reid Sally Johnston Reid (January 30, 1948 – December 21, 2019) was an American composer and oboist. Her compositions include chamber, piano, vocal, band and electroacoustic music, as well as the chamber opera ''Healing'' from 1986. A significant p ...
* Isabelle Rezazadeh ( Rezz) *
Clara Rockmore Clara Reisenberg Rockmore (9 March 1911 – 10 May 1998) was a Lithuanian classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg. Life and career Early ...
* Tara Rodgers *
Samantha Ronson Samantha Ronson (born 7 August 1977) is an English DJ, singer, and songwriter who lives in Santa Monica, California, United States. Early life Ronson was born in Camden, London, to writer/socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time music executive ...
* Lucie Bigelow Rosen *
Marina Rosenfeld Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City.Lisa Lashes Lisa Lashes (born Lisa Dawn Rose-Wyatt on 23 April 1971 in Coventry, England), is an English electronic dance music Disc jockey, DJ and music producer known for mixing numerous Euphoria (compilations), Euphoria albums and for her Lashed dance m ...
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Anna Rubin Anna Rubin (born 1946) is an American composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music. Biography Anna Rubin studied with composers Mel Powell, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, and Paul Lansky, and graduated with a doctorate in composition from ...
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Vivian Adelberg Rudow Vivian Adelberg Rudow (born 1936) is an American composer, performance artist, conducting, conductor and concert producer. She composes in the genres of Acoustic music, acoustic and electroacoustic music with works ranging from solo to full orche ...
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Jessica Rylan Jessica Rylan (born 1974) is a sound artist, electronic musician and engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. Most of Rylan's work is based on the design and construction of DIY modular synthesizers, which she then uses to create a variety of sounds ...


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Lætitia Sadier Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968, sometimes known as Seaya Sadier) is a French musician, best known as a founding member of the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab. In 1996, while Stereolab was still active, she formed the side project Monade. ...
( Stereolab) * JD Samson ( Le Tigre) * Charissa Saverio (
DJ Rap Charissa Saverio (born 7 December 1969), and better known as DJ Rap, is a British drum and bass, house and progressive electronic music producer and DJ. While the majority of her work is in the jungle style, her more successful work is in ...
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Carla Scaletti Carla Scaletti (born April 28, 1956) is an American harpist, composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound. Biography Carla Scaletti was born in Ithaca, New York. She g ...
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Polly Scattergood Polly Scattergood (born 18 October 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. She has been described as ethereal, dark, intense and quirky, while her musical style has been described as "early 21st century electro-dance-pop of London proper". ...
* Marina Schiptjenko *
Cécile Schott Colleen or Cécile Schott (born 1976) is a French composer of electronic and ambient music based in Barcelona. Early life Cécile Schott was born and raised in Montargis, France, outside of Paris. Before music, she devoted most of her time ...
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Martha Schwendener Bowery Electric was an American post-rock band, formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in 1993. History Formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in late 1993, Bowery Electric played their first show in New York City in Jan ...
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Bowery Electric Bowery Electric was an American post-rock band, formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in 1993. History Formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener in late 1993, Bowery Electric played their first show in New York City in Jan ...
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Daria Semegen Daria Semegen (born June 27, 1946) is a contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments – her ''Jeux des quatres'' (1970), for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and pi ...
* Angela Seo ( Xiu Xiu) * Judith Shatin * Lisa Shaw * Ann Shenton ( Add N to (X)) *
Alice Shields Alice Shields (born Alice Ferree Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American classical composer. She is one of the pioneers of electronic music, and is particularly known for her cross-cultural operas. Her work is influenc ...
*Alexandra Sholler ( Alison Wonderland) *
Kate Simko Kate Simko is an American composer, electronic music producer and founder of her ensemble London Electronic Orchestra. Simko has scored various feature-length films, including "The Atom Smashers" (Ghostly International), "We Believe in Dinosau ...
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Émilie Simon Émilie Simon (; born 1978 in Montpellier, Occitanie, France) is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music. Music ''Émilie Simon'' In May 2003, she released her debut album '' Émilie Simon''. The electronic album was cr ...
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Pril Smiley Pril Smiley (born 19 March 1943) is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music. Biography Pril Smiley was born in Mohonk Lake, New York. She worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s and 1970s with Milton ...
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, performer and producer, originally from the Pacific Northwest and currently based in Los Angeles. Her work prominently employs Buchla modular synthesizers. She received acclaim for her albums ''Ears' ...
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Frida Sofía Frida Sofía Moctezuma Guzmán-Pinal (born March 13, 1992), commonly known as Frida Sofía, is a Mexican-born American singer-songwriter, musician, fashion model, entrepreneur, women's rights activist, brand designer and television presenter; ...
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Laetitia Sonami Laetitia Sonami (born 1957 in France), is a sound artist, performer, and composer of interactive electronic music who has been based in the San Francisco Bay area since 1978. She is known for her electronic compositions and performances with the ...
* Martina Sorbara ( Dragonette) *
Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software ''Music Mouse''. Sh ...
* Marea Stamper ( The Blessed Madonna) * Bev Stanton (
Arthur Loves Plastic Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of Washington, D.C. based electronic music recording artist Bev Stanton. Biography Stanton was born in the Bahamas in 1966 and raised near Walt Disney World. She recorded ALP's first project, ...
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Annie Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Annie (actress) (born 1975), Indian actress * Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer The ...
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Eliot Sumner Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 30 July 1990) is an English singer, songwriter and actor. Career I Blame Coco Sumner began writing songs at the age of 15, and signed a multi-record deal with Island Records at age 17. They spent six months writing ...
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Hild Sofie Tafjord Hild Sofie Tafjord (born 4 January 1974) is a Norwegian musician (French horn), the daughter of jazz tuba player Stein Erik Tafjord and niece to the French horn player Runar Tafjord, known from several recordings and bands, especially in experiment ...
* Mari Takano * Anna Virginia Taylor (
Anna Domino Anna Domino (born 1955, Anna Virginia Taylor) is an American indie rock artist based in New York and Los Angeles who released several albums for Les Disques du Crepuscule and Factory Records in the 1980s and 1990s. Domino has collaborated with ...
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Fiorella Terenzi Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist, author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan b ...
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Diane Thome Diane Thome (born 1942) is an American composer. She studied piano with Dorothy Taubman and Orazio Frugoni and composition with Robert Strassburg, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, A.U. Boscovich, and Milton Babbitt. Life and work Thome graduate ...
* Ebony Thomas (
Ebony Bones Ebony Bones ('' née'' Thomas; born 9 October 1982) is an English singer-songwriter model, actress, and producer. Her musical style is eclectic and often blends elements of afrobeat, art rock, post-punk, classical, new-wave and electronic. Her ...
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Lysa Aya Trenier Lysa Aya Trenier, also known simply as Aya, is a British singer-songwriter and actress. She most notably is associated with the Naked Music recording label. She is of Singaporean/Irish/ Scottish descent. After growing up in London, she moved to ...
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Ludmila Ulehla Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009) was an American composer and music educator. Biography Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. ...


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Julia Wolfe Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are rech ...
* Erykah Wright ( Erykah Badu)


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Meredith Yayanos Meredith Anne Yayanos is a California-based violinist, vocalist and thereminist. Her work has been featured on tracks with artists including The Dresden Dolls, The Vanity Set, Revue Noir, David Garland and The Walkmen. Since 2021, Yayanos is a me ...
* Yoshimi Yokota ( Yoshimi P-We) (
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Ami Yoshida is a Japanese musician. Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice. Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are bei ...
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External links


Jon Leidecker and Barbara Golden: Women In Electronic Music 1938-1982
radio show ''Crack’O’Dawn'', 2 parts, aired 1. April 2010 on KPFA FM in Berkeley, USA


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Female Electronic Musicians, List Of Electronic * * *