Michele Amabile Angermiller We Are Moving the Needle, the nonprofit launched by Grammy-winning mastering engineer Emily Lazar — which celebrates its first birthday today — has partnered with Jaxsta, the Australia-based database of music credits, to include gender identifiers in its search function.
The goal: to showcase engineers, producers, mixers, and songwriters who are women or non-binary. The pronouns she/her and they/them will be used to delineate gender for those who choose to do so.
The initiative has been dubbed “Fix the Mix” and the hope is that it will lead to increased work opportunities for these underrepresented groups.Other organizations that have signed on to support and work with “Fix the Mix” include Women in Music, SoundGirls, shesaid.so, and Change the Conversation.
The Jaxsta database covers over 220 million credits and 13 million creatives, among them producers, songwriters, engineers and musicians.
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