First Name
LeahAnn "Lafemmebear"
Last Name
Mitchell
City, State
Oakland, CA
Country
United States
Pronouns
She/her/hers
Gender
Transgender/Gender non-conforming
Female
Roles
Editor
Producer
Host
Sound Designer
Sound Engineer
Composer
Formats / Genre
Interviews / Roundtable
Narrative Non-fiction / Documentary
News / Journalism
Fiction
Experimental
Daily shows
Other Format / Genre
Composition for TV
Languages spoken
English
Open to relocating
No
Open to branded content?
Yes
More about me
LeahAnn “Lafemmebear” Mitchell has long been featured and praised in the music industry for her talents as a musician, music producer, and sound engineer, having worked with major label studios and more recently as an independent artist under the moniker “Lafemmebear.”
As an up-and-coming producer, Mitchell worked alongside producers for Boyz II Men, Grammy-winners The Jackie Boyz, Eric Dawkins of The Underdogs, Polo Molina of Will. I. Am/The Black Eyed Peas, and Interscope Records producers from Nelly’s songwriting team. When she came out as a transgender woman in 2013, she was effectively blacklisted from the industry despite her skill and accomplishments, including a 2012 Grammy nomination for album engineering.
This only prompted Mitchell to take her music into her own hands under the name Lafemmebear in 2018. The arrival of her first indie release, 'Blaq* A Note to the World', showed that her sound has evolved into a genre-blending experience speaking to the trials of Black queer, trans femmes. The music video for the EP single "SHUTUP! (feat. Bella King)" premiered on Billboard.com in March of 2019; she subsequently became the first Black trans woman to headline the state of Utah's Pride Festival in June, performing original music to an audience of over 60,000. Her words and work have since been featured by Esquire, The Guardian, MTV News, GLAAD, Queerty, Out.Tv Euro, and Autostraddle.
Her first full album, 'Blaq: the Story of Me', premiered Fall 2019 and is available on all platforms. She co-composed and sound designed the original score for Alice Sheppard and Kinetic Light’s new work WIRED, which will premiere at The Shed NY in 2022. In 2020 she collaborated with PEG Records, Cody Belew, and Dustin Ransom to co-write and produce the first mainstream Pop-R&B single “What You’re Looking For” for Rupaul’s Drag Race’s Peppermint. She and Peppermint later collaborated with Mila Jam in a remake of Sounds of Blackness' "Optimistic," an anthem for Trans Day of Remembrance 2020. In February 2021 she opened for Chika at Stanford University’s Black Love concert, premiering songs from her new EP titled 'My Blaq Feels'.
In October 2021, LeahAnn "Lafemmebear" Mitchell became the first Black trans woman to produce a record on a Top Ten charting album with "I'm a Survivor (Lafemmebear Remix)" on Reba's 'REVIVED, REMIXED, REVISITED'.
In addition to her music projects, Lafemmebear produces and directs the documentary series “We See You: Black Trans Living Legends,” which focuses on preserving the legacies of living Black queer and trans elders. Sample of entirely self-hosted, written, edited, produced, mixed, and mastered podcast episode available upon request.
As an up-and-coming producer, Mitchell worked alongside producers for Boyz II Men, Grammy-winners The Jackie Boyz, Eric Dawkins of The Underdogs, Polo Molina of Will. I. Am/The Black Eyed Peas, and Interscope Records producers from Nelly’s songwriting team. When she came out as a transgender woman in 2013, she was effectively blacklisted from the industry despite her skill and accomplishments, including a 2012 Grammy nomination for album engineering.
This only prompted Mitchell to take her music into her own hands under the name Lafemmebear in 2018. The arrival of her first indie release, 'Blaq* A Note to the World', showed that her sound has evolved into a genre-blending experience speaking to the trials of Black queer, trans femmes. The music video for the EP single "SHUTUP! (feat. Bella King)" premiered on Billboard.com in March of 2019; she subsequently became the first Black trans woman to headline the state of Utah's Pride Festival in June, performing original music to an audience of over 60,000. Her words and work have since been featured by Esquire, The Guardian, MTV News, GLAAD, Queerty, Out.Tv Euro, and Autostraddle.
Her first full album, 'Blaq: the Story of Me', premiered Fall 2019 and is available on all platforms. She co-composed and sound designed the original score for Alice Sheppard and Kinetic Light’s new work WIRED, which will premiere at The Shed NY in 2022. In 2020 she collaborated with PEG Records, Cody Belew, and Dustin Ransom to co-write and produce the first mainstream Pop-R&B single “What You’re Looking For” for Rupaul’s Drag Race’s Peppermint. She and Peppermint later collaborated with Mila Jam in a remake of Sounds of Blackness' "Optimistic," an anthem for Trans Day of Remembrance 2020. In February 2021 she opened for Chika at Stanford University’s Black Love concert, premiering songs from her new EP titled 'My Blaq Feels'.
In October 2021, LeahAnn "Lafemmebear" Mitchell became the first Black trans woman to produce a record on a Top Ten charting album with "I'm a Survivor (Lafemmebear Remix)" on Reba's 'REVIVED, REMIXED, REVISITED'.
In addition to her music projects, Lafemmebear produces and directs the documentary series “We See You: Black Trans Living Legends,” which focuses on preserving the legacies of living Black queer and trans elders. Sample of entirely self-hosted, written, edited, produced, mixed, and mastered podcast episode available upon request.
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