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MFLC

South East

 

MFLC is a 22 year old musician and youth worker from Brighton. 

 

The fund will help create a ten track debut album written between 2020 and 2025. Exploring themes of Suicide, gender, hope, love, friendship and heartbreak.

 

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Mercy Sotire

South West

 

Mercy’s Cartel is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and engineer creating genre-fluid music rooted in alternative R&B and hip hop. 

 

The grant will fund the release of three singles that reintroduce their work as an artist, producer, and engineer. The project blends genre-fluid songwriting with performance-led visuals.

 

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Meera

West Midlands

 

Meera Chumber is an independent singer-songwriter and producer creating emotive, layered R&B and alt-soul. 

 

The funding will be used to create The Woman He Used To Call Mine, a continued project from her debut album. It unpacks themes of vulnerability, feminism and social constructs. 

 

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Mar!k

London

 

Mar!k makes music for people who want to live outside the box. Blurring soul, electronic, hip-hop, reggae and rock, his music is driven by groove-heavy basslines, vivid textures, and fearless experimentation.

 

He will use the funding to create a  5–6 track collaborative EP telling the story of finding identity in a chaotic world that pushes conformity.

 

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Madams Last Discovery

Northern Ireland

 

Madams Last Discovery, or Madams, as their fans have nicknamed them, is a psych-induced post-punk project from Belfast. 

 

They want to create an EP for their musical project Madams Last Discovery. They will release 2 singles and the full 4 track EP between September 2026 and February 2027.

 

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Lydia Shute

South East

 

Drawing inspiration from iconic storytellers, Lydia crafts tear-inducing ballads alongside euphoric dance floor moments exploring queer identity and the pitfalls of heartbreak.

 

Lydia's debut EP will consist of 5 songs connected by the overarching feeling of needing to listen to their gut instinct. 

 

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LOLA!

Scotland

 

LOLA! is a Nigerian-Scottish R&B and neo-soul artist. Her songwriting spans from reflective and raw lyrics to empowering, groove-filled anthems.

 

The funding will be used for her debut EP which will weave in the sensations of curiosity, nostalgia and reclaiming power. 

 

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LAMAYA

Scotland


LAMAYA is a Scotland-based Afro Pop artist shaped by Nigerian heritage, Spanish culture and the UK underground. She blends her truth with a bilingual flair. 

 

LAMAYA will use the funding to put out an EP. 

 

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Kai Wei

London

 

Kai Wei is a Chinese Malaysian Hip-Hop artist who grew up in Manchester. 

 

The funding will support his debut EP OMEGAH WEI: a six-track alternative boom bap project blending English and Cantonese, created with producer Omegah Red.

 

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Jeremy M

Yorkshire and The Humber

 

Jeremy M is a 23-year-old singer and songwriter from York, writing acoustic indie pop songs about mental health, sexuality, religion and chronic illness.

 

"Time To Let Go!" is their second EP, a 5-track project about their experience trying to let go of my childhood trauma.

 

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