Ronja Maltzahn

Ronja Maltzahn (born December 12, 1993, Bad Pyrmont) is a German singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

Ronja is a musician skilled in playing the cello, guitar, ukulele, and piano, and she is adept at writing lyrics in various languages.

She leads the BlueBird Orchestra, a group consisting of 15 musicians, dancers, and visual artists who play instruments such as the Nyckelharpa, violin, saxophone, flute, piano, french horn, trumpet, drums, bass, handpan, and contribute to multi-part harmonies.

For a planned appearance at an event on March 25, 2022, in Hannover, Maltzahn received a last-minute cancellation from a local group of Fridays for Future arguing that from an anti-colonial and anti-racist perspective, it was deemed unacceptable for a white person to wear Dreadlocks on stage.

The incident triggered widespread media coverage and critical comments on the disinvitation[8][9][10][11][12] Maltzahn herself stated that there are currently much more socially relevant issues.