James Brown may have said it’s a man’s world but singer/songwriter/producer Joy Valencia is beating the boys at their own game.

The Chicago-born songstress broke all kinds of rules in her pursuit to establish her musical identity. While attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Valencia made a bold decision to change her major from Songwriting to Music Production and Engineering, where she was one of just a handful of girls in the program.

“It is a boy’s game,” Valencia said of the area of study, “but Berklee was 80% guys to begin with so I got used to it.”

According to Valencia, while she has always loved singing, she was even more intrigued by what happened behind the glass in a recording studio.

“As a kid, I used to splice together parts of different songs and make my own mixes,” Valencia said. “I also used to record myself from tape to tape, over and over again so it would sound like I had five voices.”

That desire to dig deeper into the production side of making music has helped Valencia carve out a uniquely clever sound that is all her own, one that has earned her the title of Stereofame.com’s Artist of the Month for September 2010.

“People tend to see me as a singer/songwriter but they don’t typically see me as a producer; they don’t realize how much I do in the studio…” she said.

- Joy Valencia Announced as Stereofame.com's Artist of the Month for September, 2010

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