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Ella Ronen

Social Change

Mino Collective

by Ella Ronen

She currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland. After releasing her first album “Mirror Maze” (2014), working and playing shows all around Europe for years, Ella grew increasingly frustrated with the traditional labels, managers, and other professionals she had encountered along the way. As a storyteller and a feminist, it has always been crucial for her to define her own narrative, which seemed impossible as long as that narrative ends up filtered and minimized through the omnipresent male gaze of the music business. Her second album, “Toska” (2018), was a Hebrew album released independently in Tel Aviv. It has been the soundtrack of the #MeToo revolution in Israel, with all of the proceeds from it donated to the Tel Aviv Aid Center for Survivors of Sexual Abuse.

Now she is about to release her third album, “Motherland”, which was recorded in both Zurich and Tel Aviv, mothering her two young children, and actively working towards a nurturing and uplifting environment for musicians who are female-identified, PoC, and other minorities.

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RESIDENCY

The Mino Collective is a group of musicians – activists who are collaborating on a newly envisioned way to work within the music industry. The collective is founded and run by the artists Ella Ronen, Brandy Butler, and Sarah Palin.

The main goal of Mino is to be diverse and female-led. We have an inclusive feminist agenda and we put a priority on showcasing great talent that is not necessarily white and/or male, beginning with our local environment in Switzerland, and growing outwards from there.

Our name “Mino”, is inspired by the all-female army of the Dahomey Kingdom in pre-colonial Africa. Literally meaning “our mothers,” “Mino” encapsulates our core values of carrying on the historical fight for visibility and equality for women, LGBTQIA and people of color, and also providing a nurturing and supportive environment for these artists to grow in.

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KEREN McKEAN, UK

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