“Our focus is on restoring the imbalance of gender, culture and privilege within the UK’s creative space”: Adele and Stormzy producer Fraser T Smith launches scheme to encourage more diversity in music production

Fraser T. Smith.

A new initiative has been launched that hopes to increase diversity amongst producers working within the music industry, which even in 2025 is overwhelming male and more often than not, white and middle class.

The Future Producer Academy is the brainchild of Fraser T Smith who has worked with Adele, Stormzy and Celine Dion, and yes, he is very much white and male. To be fair to Smith, he has worked with a hugely diverse range of artists and in 2020 released an album 12 Questions (under the name Future Utopia) that raised this very issue of disparity of opportunity, amongst many others.