Maryam Qudus

Devotion to music has driven Spacemoth's Maryam Qudus—a performer, composer, and producer based in the Bay Area—for as long as she can remember. At age twelve, she traded chores for guitar lessons; at sixteen, she took on after school jobs to pay for voice lessons. As a first-generation Afghan-American child of working-class immigrant parents, finding a place in music has been nothing short of a challenge for Qudus.

For episode 6, Qudus sat down with host Madeleine Campbell to discuss her years of building a reputation as a sought-after producer and studio engineer and how she’s found a prominent place for herself. Qudus has collaborated with countless artists, including clients like Wax Nine’s Sad13, Toro y Moi, and Tune-Yards, which expanded her endless curiosity for recorded music and sparked the studio experiments that became 'No Past No Future', Spacemoth’s debut album.