Ilā Kamalagharan
- Co-Founder & Creative Director
- United Kingdom
Ilā Kamalagharan (ILĀ) is co-founder and creative director of Maison Mercury Jones, the UK’s first (and only) trans+ queer POC led music branding agency which collaborates exclusively with artists and composers from underrepresented backgrounds to create meaningful and inclusive music partnerships. They are also the co-founder of legendary choir London Contemporary Voices and Trans Voices, the U.K.'s first professional trans+ choir. Celebrated as a music industry Changemaker, Ilā sits on the Ivors Academy Future Sound Experience Council, is a member of Earth/Percent Music Committee, a Redcliffe Advisory ambassador and a PhD supervisor and research partner (AI & Music) at University of Sheffield.
As an artist, ILĀ has performed globally and spoken at World Economic Forum, TedTalks, Oxford University with recent project partners including Kent Refugee Action Network (Little Amal) and award-winning charity Living Words, working with seldom heard voices from young LGBTQIA+ people to those living with dementia.
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