In the organizer's words:

Honest. Queer. Self-determined. It is the search for a perspective and direction in life that drove the queer German-Iranian Mina Richman to music at an early age. Born in Berlin but raised in the small town of Bad Salzuflen, she commuted between worlds and discovered treasures such as Joan As Police Woman and Nina Simone in her aunt's CD collection. Inspired by these and out of the loneliness of the coronavirus pandemic, she released her debut EP "Jaywalker" in 2022, with which she was nominated for the PopNRW Award as best newcomer. Raised by her father to be a feminist "by mistake" - as she once put it in an interview with Die Zeit - she used the famous Cher quote "Mom, I am a rich man" for her artist name.

The solidarity song "Baba Said" suddenly went viral during the revolution in Iran and enabled her to make a contribution to the fight for freedom and human rights with her music. She sees combining activism with music as a duty and a necessity.

In her debut album, which was released on March 15, 2024 on the Ladies&Ladys label, Mina Richman confronts growing up. She returns to her childhood with a great deal of honesty and deals with quarrelling parents, cultural uprooting and the social and personal treatment of her body. Together with her band, Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Alexander Mau and Leon Brames and producer Tobias Siebert (Juli, Enno Bunger), she has developed a versatile sound inspired by soul and blues classics and modern folk and hip hop productions. Named album of the week by DLF Kultur and FluxFM, she played a Germany-wide headlining tour in March/April 2024 and at Orange Blossom Special, Traumzeit, Fusion, Waves Vienna and Reeperbahn Festival, among others. In October, she accompanied Christina Stürmer on tour and won the PopNRW Award in the "Outstanding Artist" category.

On March 28, the second EP "Past 25" was released and Mina Richman played a Germany-wide headlining tour in April and May 2025 and performed the Ärzte hit "Schrei nach Liebe" with Bela B at a demo against right-wing extremism in Berlin. She is currently working on her second album with her band, which is due to be released in August 2026.

"Artful songs and lyrics that produce nothing but touching truthfulness through their oversharing. GROWN UP by the German-Iranian Mina Richman is the most remarkable debut album of the year." (Linus Volkmann, Musikexpress)