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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

SXSW 2025: Lafemmebear

 This artist is playing Luck as part of Aaron Lee Tasjan's showcase.  According to this interview:

Q: What are you best known for?

A: Probably "I'm a Survivor (Lafemmebear Remix)" which I produced last summer as part of Reba McEntire's new REVIVED, REMIXED, REVISITED collection. Because of that remix, I'm now the first ever Black trans woman to produce a record on a Billboard Top Ten-charting album.

Here is "I'm a Survivor (Jafemmebear Remix)"

Most of her music on Spotify is dance-pop oriented. As to why she's at Luck this may be why:

Q:What are you working on that no one knows about yet?

A:Mya Byrne (she played lap steel and mandolin on the "I'm a Survivor" remix) and I are releasing some new music this year that's going to test the bounds of the country and folk genres - more accurately, it'll test the allyship of the white country audience. There's a Black and queer revolution happening for sure in the country music scene, which is long overdue especially since country music originated with Black folks.

Interesting.  She also did a remix of an Aaron Lee Tasjan song which is maybe how she got on his radar. Here it is:


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