We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Meesh Tsakiridis Rachael Ma. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Meesh Tsakiridis below.
Meesh Tsakiridis, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?
Creating Kyra Collective has been a meaningful project for us because it has become a space for female and femme creatives in the music industry to support one another and help each other grow. The music industry is heavily male-dominated so having Kyra Collective as a community to empower each other is essential. We created Kyra in 2023 with a few co-founders – Kurei, Meeshroom, RatchaelBeats, Nallah Mystique, and Vyhara – and have been playing festivals and venues across the nation ever since. We currently have 60 members throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Meesh Tsakiridis, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
We are collective of femme artists comprised of DJs, music producers, and visual creators coming together to grow in the music industry. Our objective is to uphold respect, justice & support for female and femme artists in the music industry. Kyra, a female’s name of Greek origin, means “lord.” This name comes from the Greek word kurá, which is a Greek title of respect for women.
Our showcases have premiered in San Diego, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nevada City, Flagstaff, Eugene, and Reno. We have performed at festivals such as Lightening in a Bottle, Shambhala, The Untz, and Oregon Country Fair. Our current projects include event showcases, Twitch livestreams, SoundCloud mix series, and festival takeovers.We aspire to create spaces for artists to express their creations, visions and dreams.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
Being a woman in the music industry demands resilience. Many of us have received backlash from the music community online for speaking up on injustices we see unfolding around us. We have collectively inspired changes in the industry on all ends of our projects and alongside other organizations such as Bass n Babes. We hope to see more women being booked on lineups and put an end to negative stereotypes about female/femme artists. Having one another to lean on as we continue to push forward is incredibly rewarding. We constantly inspire one another and stand up for what is right.
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
Kyra Collective launched on social media and started to spread the word to the music industry by dropping stickers with our logo on them around festival green rooms that first summer. We built up our social media presence by connecting with other similar organizations to inspire justice. We do our best to have constant engagement and it takes a whole team to make the magic happen. We create content around sharing music, sharing personal stories of our artists, ending negative female/femme stereotypes, and encouraging our audience to book more women on their lineups. Kyra often promotes events that our artists will be performing at. We would be nothing without the support of our collective members on social media.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.kyracollective.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyracollective_/
- Twitter: https://x.com/KyraCollective
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx5s20jEIpn28aFpYQIstiA
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kyra-bass-collective
Image Credits
Mel Morris and Brandon Chang