THE TEAM [-o-] STEPHEN RIDGEWAY Co-Founder & Director BOSS MAN 
" A Blackfulla's Destiny is Pure Greatness" Redfern Records Entertainment hopes to clarify many misconceptions about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture, and demonstrate that Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander society and music, in all its forms, is alive and flourishing. It is the intent of Redfern Records Entertainment to establish an annual National Indigenous Hip Hop R&B Awards Night “Tha Bump Awards” and National Indigenous Hip Hop R&B Magazine “Tha Bump” promoting Aboriginal Artists every year, to perform in the 8 states over the next 8 years to regional communities and major cities around Australia. An Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Hip Hop R&B Record Label of this kind designed, created and administered by the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community-surprisingly has not been established before and was long over due. Redfern Records Entertainment has been working diligently over the past 3 years and will work harder in the up and coming Years to achieve this goal. NIKITA RIDGEWAY (Sista K) Co-Founder, Director, Events & Artistic Co-Ordinator BOSS LADY 
" The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary" Since birth, Nikita was bred to be a fighter and educator for her people. Born to Aboriginal parents, her Father a Biripi Man and Stolen Generation from Taree and her Mother a strong Bundjalung Woman who taught her the ins and outs of organising and putting anything and eveyrthing together in Life. She is also the granddaughter of well known Aboriginal Author and lecturer Dr Ruby Langford Ginibi who writes and speaks about Aboriginal Culture, History and Politics. Nikita’s parents and grandmother were civil rights activists fighting for the Equal Rights of their people and raised her teaching her all their experiences and knowledge about Aboriginal History, Culture and Politics shaping and laying the foundation for the ideologies she has today. Having grown up in the Western Suburbs of Sydney she had to forever battle the stereotypes in the industries she has worked: being Female, Aboriginal, a “Westie” and Young, which from her success, it is evident has not stopped her yet. Nikita has experienced and achieved quite a lot for some one of her young age, to name a few: -1st Aboriginal School Captain in history of Blacktown Girls High School 2003-2004 - 1st Aboriginal student in NSW to receive the Minister of Education Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to School in 2004 - Co-Founder of The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Basketball Association and tournament Director of National Indigenous basketball Championship. - Co-Founder and Event Director for Redfern Records Entertainment and the Aboriginal Hip Hop & RnB BUMP Music Awards. Nikita believes education & proper business administration is important elements in the struggle for Aboriginal self-determination, her passion for helping her people, also her educational qualifications will make a positive contribution to self-determination and she believes the integrity of Aboriginal Culture must include enhancement of traditional values and principals to manage economic development for Music in Aboriginal communities around Australia. Nikita also travels from school to school giving talks to Indigenous Students on the Industry and her achievements and working in the various fields she does & encouraging the young people of today to follow their dreams and aspirations and hoping her success story can encourage them to further their education to reach their goals. | 
