INEZ Walker
INEZ is an entrepreneurial Renaissance creative and provocateur agent of change by way of Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood. INEZ, a Cum Laude, Berklee College of Music alumna, is a musical polymath who utilizes singing, songwriting, music production, arranging, drumming, audio mixing, mastering, engineering and live performance to round out her musical and teaching artist practices. INEZ considers her artistry as "genre-fluid", using elements of R&B, Soul, Hip Hop Gospel, Jazz and World genres to create her work. Following the 2019 release of her debut album, "Voicemails and Conversations", INEZ has been featured on NPR Weekend Edition, Bandcamp Daily Essentials, and despite the confines of COVID-19, performed on the digital main stage of The Three Rivers Arts Festival, headlined City Theatre's Drive-In Arts Festival, and performed on local PBS station WQED. In January 2021, INEZ was named "Pittsburgh Music Artist of the Year" for 2020 by Pittsburgh's WYEP 91.3 FM. In November 2021, INEZ became the recipient of the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award as the Emerging Artist awardee. INEZ has since been awarded $50,000 from The Heinz Endowments, composed music for Pittsburgh Sound + Image, and completed two fellowships. In 2020, INEZ co-founded BLKNVMBR; a media platform, artist development incubator and music community resource liaison for Black R&B and R&B-adjacent musicians and artists in Pittsburgh. INEZ hopes to continue using the fullness of her gifts to create space for and uplift the voices and talents of Black girls, femmes and women. INEZ participated in Music to Life's Musician 2025 Changemaker Accelerator (MCA) Workshop in Pittsburgh before being accepted into their Juried Artist Network.
