Mina Richman - Stadtgartenkonzerte am Alten Zoll

PopCamp-LIVE presents: 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 commutes between worlds. In 2022, she released her debut EP "Jaywalker", with which she was nominated for the popNRW award for best newcomer. Raised by her father to be a feminist "by mistake" - as she once put it in a ZEIT interview - 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, released in March 2024, Mina Richman faces up to 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. Named album of the week by DLF Kultur and FluxFM, she will play a Germany-wide headlining tour in March/April 2024, including at Orange Blossom Special, Traumzeit, Fusion, Waves Vienna and Reeperbahn Festival. In October, she joins Christina Stürmer on tour and wins the popNRW award in the "Outstanding Artist" category. The new EP "Past 25" is released on March 28. "Artful songs and lyrics that produce nothing but touching truthfulness through their oversharing. GROWN UP by German-Iranian Mina Richman is the most remarkable debut album of the year." (Linus Volkmann, Musikexpress).

In cooperation with "PopCamp - Meisterkurs für Populäre Musik", a project of the German Music Council.