WondaGurl grew up in Ontario, Canada and was inspired by prolific producers like Timbaland, Hit-Boy and fellow canadian producer Boi-1Da. Last year, she signed a publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing — with whom she also heads a joint venture for her imprint company, Wonderchild, where she has signed upcoming producers like 19-year-old Canadian producer Jenius.
WondaGurl is naturally shy, and her aversion to the spotlight made it difficult, early on, to adjust to being one of the most sought-after beatmakers in the business. “I had dreams of being the best female producer back in the day, but I never wanted a lot of fame,” she says. “I always wanted to be behind the scenes, and that’s one reason why I like the production profession. I didn’t know how to handle interviews. People coming up to me, it all would give me a lot of anxiety.
For years, she’d come into the studio with beats in hand and just let the music serve as the sole guide.
She is currently one of the few women regularly getting A-list production work in any genre; female producers in music account for less than three percent of production credits on the 900 most popular songs of the past nine years,. Yet she’s never let herself be discouraged. “It doesn’t matter — at the end of the day, it’s just being the best you can be,” she says. “I always felt if a man could make beats, a girl could too.
WondaGurl is now readying her own solo album, which is due to push her front and center. She declines to give early details on when the project will come out or name names involved — but she says the album is a pointed evolution of her career. She started out just wanting to be the best female producer in music. But “one day, Melony Fiona told me I didn’t have to specify ‘female,’ that I didn’t have to point that out,” she recalls. “We’re all equal in a way.
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