WIvy Benson was an English musician and bandleader, who led an all-female swing band. Benson and her band rose to fame in the 1940s, headlining variety theatres and topping the bill at the London Palladium, and became the BBC's resident house band.
WLaura Bettinson, also known by her stage names FEMME and lau.ra, is an English singer, songwriter, producer and DJ. She started writing music at 16, gigging around the Midlands area before moving to London to study Bmus Popular Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.
WNiamh Houston, better known by her stage name Chipzel, is a musician from Northern Ireland. She is best known for making chiptune music, particularly with a Game Boy. She is also a video game music composer, and is known for the soundtracks of games such as Super Hexagon, Interstellaria, Dicey Dungeons. Her music is also featured in other games such as Just Shapes and Beats and Spectra.
WAnne Ross Cousin was a British poet, musician and songwriter. She was a student of John Muir Wood and later became a popular writer of hymns, most especially "The Sands Of Time Are Sinking", while travelling with her minister husband from 1854 to 1878. Many of her hymns were widely used throughout Great Britain during the mid-to late 19th century. One of her sons, John William Cousin, was a prominent writer and editor of A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
WCharlotte Devaney is a British DJ, producer, singer, dancer, and actress.
WElizabeth Gladman Jonas was an English pianist, child prodigy, and music teacher.
WMaria Anastacia Keogh is a former Irish playwright, musician, educator and actress.
WAina Morenike Olukoga better known by her stage name Aina More is a British MC, singer and actor.
WEva Mudocci (1872–1953), born Evangeline Hope Muddock, was an English violinist, who toured Europe with the pianist Bella Edwards. She was the friend and probably lover of the artist Edvard Munch.
WSheema Mukherjee is a British composer and sitar player. She is best known for her work with musical collective Transglobal Underground and The Imagined Village. She is the niece of sitarist Nikhil Banerjee. In 2005, Billboard referred to her as a "sitar prodigy".
WGemma Ray is a British songwriter, guitarist, singer, film composer and producer.
WAruba Red is a London-based Alt-Soul and trip hop artist named after a female pirate legend. Aruba Red's music has been said to cross traditional boundaries, she has described her sound as "Alternative Soul music centred around themes of transformation and healing, influenced by trip hop, minimalist electronica, glitch, soul, acoustic folk and dub". She is also the daughter of Cream bassist, vocalist and songwriter Jack Bruce and recorded backing vocals for his last album Silver Rails which was released on 24 March 2014 on Esoteric Records. Her lyrics have been said to be passionate and intelligent, dealing with emotive subject matter. and "providing a campfire for anyone who needs to feel the warmth".
WEllen "Ellie" Ciara Rowsell is an English singer-songwriter and musician from North London. She serves as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the Mercury Prize winning indie rock band Wolf Alice.
WMillicent Stephenson is a British saxophonist, musician, teacher, songwriter and entrepreneur from Birmingham, United Kingdom. In addition, Stephenson is an entrepreneur, vocalist, music director, professional speaker, record label owner, and founder and creative director of Cafemnee and Not Just Jazz.
WZoë Strachan is a Scottish novelist, journalist, and university tutor.
WBeatie Wolfe is an Anglo-American award-winning, pioneering singer-songwriter known for "seeing music differently" and creating new tangible formats for albums in the digital era. These musical innovations, which include a Space Broadcast via the Holmdel Horn Antenna and the world's first live 360° AR stream, have gained Wolfe critical acclaim with the Victoria and Albert Museum inviting Wolfe to exhibit her 'world first' album designs in a solo exhibition; the Barbican Centre commissioning a documentary on Wolfe's work; Wired featuring Wolfe as one of 22 changing the world and UN Women selecting Wolfe as one of nine innovators for a global campaign for International Women's Day. In January 2020, Wolfe received the She Rocks Innovator award alongside Suzi Quatro, Gloria Gaynor, Linda Perry and Tal Wilkenfield.
WNilüfer Yanya is an English singer, songwriter, composer and musician.