Claire Boucher, the musician referred to as Grimes and former companion of Elon Musk, has had extra success promoting digital belongings than her tunes. In a current interview with Wired, she stated the $5.8 million obtained from the 2021 sale of an NFT assortment on the platform Nifty Gateway was greater than she’s ever constructed from music.
“[The NFT collection] was on my brother. He had an actual imaginative and prescient, and we wound up doing one of many first huge ones,” Grimes stated. “It did really change my life.”
Regardless of the gathering’s success, Grimes lamented the state of crypto now.
“I’m unhappy about what occurred to NFTs and crypto, as a result of it bought polluted quick with individuals making an attempt to make as a lot cash as potential,” she stated. “However I do need to take into consideration compensating artists, particularly digital artists. And I hope when the aggro area of interest dies down, we will come again.”
Grimes’s quiet crypto profession
Grimes launched her first album “Geidi Primes” in 2010 and has since rose to prominence for her excessive power electrical pop music. In 2018, Grimes started relationship billionaire and social community proprietor Elon Musk, having two kids with him earlier than splitting up in 2022.
After the success of her first NFT undertaking, Grimes quietly made a presence for herself within the crypto trade.
Final 12 months, she helped launch a $100 million creator fund with the Avalanche Basis referred to as the Tradition Catalyst, by which she supposed to create an “intergalactic metaverse kids’s e book.”
Grimes additionally collaborated with TikTok when the favored social media app deliberate to launch an NFT assortment in 2021.
