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Ryhme

East Midlands
 

Loughborough's Ryhme is a peer mentor in youth work, inspiring young people to create music, and wants to continue inspiring loads more through his own project. 

 

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Saffron Gray

East Midlands
 

Raised in church and inspired by old-school and new-school R&B icons like Brandy, Summer Walker, and SZA, Saffron Gray explores different genres using music as therapy to connect with others. Her upcoming R&B project captures the essence of everyday emotions and challenges, exploring how small moments shape the bigger picture. Inspired by the butterfly effect, it encourages listeners to reflect on lives ups and downs with positivity, offering a comforting reminder to keep moving forward and embrace the journey through music.

 

Pronouns: she/her


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Roukaya B

North West
 

Roukaya B is a multifaceted creative, blending timeless soulful vocals with sultry melodies and a dynamic fashion sense. She fuses jazz, R&B and alternative styles. Her NextGen Fund project explores mental health, hypersensitivity, spirituality and the human voice as an instrument. It seeks funding to enhance current demos, collaborate with producers, engineers, videographers, producers and stylists and host a premier event. The goal: create a fully realised, impactful audiovisual experience.

 

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Ronn

Greater London
 

Ronn is a musician and composer from Hyderabad, India, with 2 BBC TV Show credits. He's currently pursuing Music at University of Westminster, London. Ronn specialises in rap, songwriting, and music production, and his voice reflects South Indian roots, expressed through Telugu language. He is working on a Telugu hip-hop album featuring artists from across India and the UK, blending regional and international languages and cultures into one musical journey. Each track transports listeners to a new Indian city, reflecting its unique vibe, slang, and musical influence, creating the sonic experience of an all-India tour.

 

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Rivkala

North East
 

Rivkala is a Manchester-born, North-East based vocalist, songwriter, pianist, bandleader, stylist, choreographer, artistic director and all-round showgirl, using music as a vessel for storytelling and social commentary, with a firm jazz, neo-soul rooting. Rivkala will be recording her second EP, titled 'Masquerades', which expands on the audio-visual world established in EP1, exploring themes of performance in everyday life.

 

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ONYINYÉ

West Midlands
 

ONYINYÉ is a singer and rapper who uses her artistry to speak about God, social, political injustice and more. 'Growing Pains' is an album that explores her experience of moving from Ireland to England, and going from a teenage girl to young adult, covering the difficulties and beauty of the process that many can relate to but rarely discuss - the fear of getting older.

 

Pronouns: she/her


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Numa

North West
 

Numa is a beatboxer based in Manchester specialising in Techno and Drum & Bass. His performances feature a 100% vocal EDM set. He has performed at major festivals, including Beat-Herder and Boomtown. He is currently working on an innovative one-hour beatboxing performance with an orchestra, crafting a powerful and dynamic storytelling experience.

 

Pronouns: he/him


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Nailbreaker

East Midlands
 

Nailbreaker is a punk/rap/noise artist from Northamptonshire who has been independently touring and releasing music for the past five years. His new project will be the follow-up to his debut Nailbreaker album, 'Robert Knight Wine Cellar' released in November last year. This album aims to expand on the sounds and themes of the first, but with more professional recording. 

 

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Muckerhood

Northern Ireland
 

Derry-based Muckerhood is a solo music project in which Niall Grace writes, produces, stages, choreographs and performs tracks that together blend an eclectic mix of genres, from folk pop to electronic rock, whilst embracing local roots and local vocal sound, falling somewhere under the art rock sphere.

 

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Mistry

South East
 

Mistry blends soulful melodies with elements of Pop, Chilled Rap and Desi music, drawing from his South Asian heritage. He is aiming to release his third EP 'Growing Pains', songs based on the experience of a South Asian navigating their twenties, towards the end the year.

 

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