Angela Cortes

Ángela Cortés is a Colombian-Spanish journalist, expert in digital marketing and corporate communication. Born and raised in Bogotá, she has been living in Madrid, Spain for more than a decade, where she has settled down and developed most of her career. She is Co-Founder and Communications Director of DJP Music School, a music production school based in Madrid. Through the first years at the school, she realized of the difficulties of women to grow in the music industry, thus she started looking for ideas to help solve these issues, and finally founding Her Beats. Now, she has been leading Her Beats for more than 4 years, an initiative that seeks to generate female references in electronic music through talks, masterclasses and workshops for women in Spain. Additionally she is leading different women’s immersion and visibility projects in the music industry and she’s also a Beats By Girlz collaborator with the creation of the Madrid chapter in 2019.