Artist Spotlight #3: HER

Fofi: I have been heavily involved in the music industry for the past 25+ years as a DJ, radio producer, consultant and music journalist in various media outlets, specializing in electronic music. I started DJing professionally when I was 16, so I experienced the difficulties that a girl had first hand, trying to make it in a (local) man-dominated industry, needless to say female DJs were a scarcity at the time — it was so difficult to find a role model to be inspired by, look up to, reassure in some way that there was a future, a possibility for a career out there for me. I had to work extremely hard, rely only on myself, constantly prove that I deserve to be there, belong there over and over (and maybe still do today), until I finally got to a point of being able to exclusively live by my profession. Greece is quite behind in matters of equality, so at some point I decided that I had to give back, I did not want other people and especially girls having to go through what I went through to get somewhere. So, I created HER project. It was a very lonely ride at first, but luckily I met Virginia at a HER party. I detected her drive, our common values and ethos, which led me to decide to invite her on board. With HER project and our trajectory in music as starting points, we were more than excited to launch the Athenian chapter of shesaid.so in April 2020, elevating our initiatives and efforts on a wider and larger scale, belonging to a like-minded larger and international community. <a href="https://shesaid-so.medium.com/artist-spotlight-3-her-21f0adb97540">Learn More</a>