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Welcome to the website for the Purple Pam Foundation, Inc. The Purple Pam Foundation was created to keep Pam Warren aka Pam the Funkstress’ legacy alive— to carry out her dream of creating an organization dedicated to helping the enrichment for children who are passionate about music and music technology, cultivating female entrepreneurship in the arts and encouraging the equal treatment of women in the entertainment industry. This site is also a source for stories and Hip Hop facts about Pam that will hopefully inspire future generations of Djs, Rappers, Chefs, Entrepreneurs, & Hustlers from the Bay and Beyond.
Put Some Respek on my Name - Pam The M.F. Funkstress |
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The Purple Pam Foundation is pleased to announce its 2nd annual DJ Scholarship contest for 2021. This contest is for the Ladies who want to put it down on the West Coast!
The first scholarship is for the prestigious Beat Junkie institute of Sound in Glendale, California. The second is for Creative Minds at the Pyramind (pronounced PYRA _ MIND) School of Sound in San Francisco. Both scholarship winners will each receive a one year subscription to DMS Music service and Dj supplies from 1 Stop DJ Shop.
We are accepting submissions from August 1st through September 30th.
Winners will be announced on October 9th on https://www.twitch.tv/trueskool!
To enter, you must be a woman over the age of 18 with a High School Diploma or GED. Submit a 1 to 2 minute video of you dj'ing, on turntables or a controller and submit an essay of no less than 500 words, which expresses why you should be chosen for this particular Scholarship.
Submit your application, video link, essay and questions to: purplepamfoundation@gmail.com
Good Luck from the Pam the Funkstress team!
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Pam Warren is remembered as a Bay Area hip-hop legend and a true DJ icon. She leaves behind an impressive artistic legacy, including numerous classic mixes. In 2018, the Purple Pam Foundation was established to manifest her vision of supporting female DJs in the music industry. The Foundation has established two annual scholarships for up-and-coming female DJs, with the support of The Recording Academy’s San Francisco chapter.
The mix you’re about to hear, titled “BASS Bay Area Rap,” shows Pam at her best. It was recorded at Youth Radio in 2010 and, as the name suggests, features an all-Bay Area list of artists, including Too Short, E-40, Keak Da Sneak, Nump, Mistah FAB, The Delinquents, Richie Rich and Turf Talk. Turn it up loud, go dumb, and put one in the air for Purple Pam the Funkstress, the Turntable Queen! Thank you Sway in the Morning/Shade 45 for sharing this mix!
The mix you’re about to hear, titled “BASS Bay Area Rap,” shows Pam at her best. It was recorded at Youth Radio in 2010 and, as the name suggests, features an all-Bay Area list of artists, including Too Short, E-40, Keak Da Sneak, Nump, Mistah FAB, The Delinquents, Richie Rich and Turf Talk. Turn it up loud, go dumb, and put one in the air for Purple Pam the Funkstress, the Turntable Queen! Thank you Sway in the Morning/Shade 45 for sharing this mix!
Pam the Funkstress speaks at the Girl Power! Women working in the Music Industry Conference 5.20.2017
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in Pam we trust - 2018
Special Thanks to Mona Webb for an incredible poem "IN PAM We Trust", MIke Denton of Infinite studios, Alameda Ca for helping the foundation in putting this together.
