Melissa Perales

Melissa Perales moved from Chicago to Berlin in the 90’s where she studied film at Columbia College Chicago. Since then she has organized an international film festival, owned her own restaurant, began booking and promoting live shows and film screenings under the moniker M:Soundtrack, and for the last 7 years she has co-curated music festivals in Berlin. As a concert promoter she presents international acts monthly in venues such as Schokoladen, Grüner Salon or Berghain Kantine. M:Soundtrack is a platform and meeting point within the Berlin independent music scene since it’s 2004 inception. She has been co- organizing the Torstrassen festival in Berlin-Mitte since 2011 and since 2017 the co founder and curator of the We Make Waves Festival fro women, trans and non-binary people in music. Melissa’s passion is soundtracks, therefore starting Supertape was the likely result: a music supervision and consulting company which she runs together with the documentary filmmaker, Sabine Steyer. Melissa is also a board member with all2gethernow e.V., an organization who looks for new strategies within the music business and it’s cultural landscape.

Through a2n, Melissa & Colleagues founded the Music Pool Berlin, the central place to go for musicians and people working in the music business for consultations, workshops, coaching and community networking. Here she is the co-founder and a consultant. Besides all of this Melissa is an established hobby cook & dinner hostess, a passionate mixtape maker, and prone to staying up late watching supernatural television shows, but her top “gig” is being a Mom to 2 boys, 3 and 16 years old.

Panel: Craving Sustainability
Wednesday, November 22, 7pm
OHM