The F-List for Music is delighted to announce that renowned DJ Paulette to be 6th President!
The F-List for Music is delighted to announce that internationally renowned DJ Paulette will serve as its 6th President. Paulette takes on the honorary role from Miranda Cooper, following in the footsteps of Hannah Peel, Professor Shirley J Thompson, Brix Smith, and Anoushka Shankar. The Presidency allows influential musicians to champion and bring attention to the impactful work of The F-List for Music.
The Presidency reflects The F-List’s commitment to supporting musicians across all genres of music, with each President representing a different area of the industry. From classical and pop to rock and composition, each has brought their own perspective to the role. With electronic music and DJ culture still heavily male-dominated, we are particularly delighted to have DJ Paulette represent this genre over the coming year. Renowned for her dynamic sets spanning house, disco, and techno, Paulette has carved out a reputation for energy and excellence across underground dancefloors and main stages across the world. She has shared the decks with global stars such as The Blessed Madonna and Radio 1’s Jaguar.
Founded during the pandemic, The F-List is the UK’s only nationwide organisation dedicated to supporting women and gender-diverse musicians. Through its online directory, training programmes, workshops, mentoring, research and advocacy, it works to overcome barriers and create meaningful opportunities across the music industry. In the online directory there are nearly 700 women tagged with ‘electronic’ music as a genre, nearly 120 DJs and just under 400 producers so we have a size-able EDM community. The F-List works across genres but have run numerous projects focused on upskilling women and gender-diverse musicians in music technology as it’s so critical to career success.
DJ Paulette says: ‘I am honoured to be named President of The F-List, an organisation that stands firmly for diversity, equity and inclusion in music. Supporting women and gender-diverse artists has always been close to my heart, and I’m proud to amplify this essential mission.’
Vick Bain, Founder of The F-List, says: “We are thrilled to welcome DJ Paulette as our sixth President. Her trailblazing career across three decades of electronic music, combined with her commitment to equity and representation, makes her the perfect figurehead for The F-List this year. Paulette’s influence, visibility and passion will help us continue driving change for women and gender-diverse musicians across the UK and beyond.”
DJ Paulette
Award winning is no understatement. Winner of the DJ Mag Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award (November 2022) the Keychange (PRS) Inspiration Award (Sound City April 2023), the NTIA Ambassadors of The Night Award (March 2024) and voted DJ of the Year (Nordoff and Robbins) Northern Music Awards 2024 Paulette is a highly regarded DJ, broadcaster and now author, celebrated around the world, born and raised in (and still resident of) Manchester. Over a 30-year career, she has scaled the heights of dance music fame and hedonism playing disco, house and techno to huge crowds and in cool underground basements. She is a DJ who is renowned for consistently ‘smashing’ every set she plays. One of two women to have a monthly residency at the Hacienda, she went on to have residencies at Brighton’s Zap Club and London’s Heaven and Ministry of Sound, before serving successful stints in Paris and Ibiza then returning to Manchester to rise again in her birth and spiritual home. She has a keen talent for reinvention and replicating excellence. Her second Essential Mix was broadcast on Radio One in February 2023. She is known for her monthly radio shows with Reform Radio, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and has a Global Residency show produced in collaboration with The Radio Department that can be found on Apple Music. She is a regular presenter stand-in on BBC 6 Music.
She has played iconic B2Bs with Radio One Introducing Dance’s Jaguar, The Blessed Madonna, Erol Alkan, Stacy ‘Hottwax’ Hale, Prosumer, IsaBELLA and there are more planned for 2026. She shines consistently from disco through to tech house and has dazzled with sets for The Hacienda, Warehouse Project, Faith, Trade, HeSheThey, Kaiku in Helsinki, Corsica Studios, Blitz Club in Munich, Horsemeat Disco, El Row, Levels, Scissors, San Remo, Stonebridge and Greenpeace at Glastonbury, Bugged Out, Drumsheds , Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza and Defected in Malta amongst many more!
Aside from DJ’ing Paulette is an events and exhibition curator and a regular contributor to radio shows as diverse as Afrodeutsche’s ‘The People’s Party’, Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul Show, Jamz Supernova on 6Music, Radcliffe and Maconie, Amy Lame, Anamatronic’s ‘Dance Devotion’, Eats Everything’s ‘Edible Beats’. She sits on the Regional and Live Events Committees (North) for the Musicians’ Union and is a Power Up mentor for shesaidso. Her debut book ‘Welcome To The Club: The life and lessons of a black woman DJ’ published in January 2024 by Manchester University Press to huge critical acclaim and became available in paperback and audiobook formats in April 2025. She has been nominated for I Love Manchester’s Emmeline Pankhurst Award and has recently been honoured by the city and muralised by Akse-P19.
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