Be Steadwell

Be Steadwell (sometimes stylized as be steadwell) is a singer-songwriter and filmmaker from Washington, D.C. She is best known for producing a genre of music she calls "Queer Pop".

Steadwell produced the film Vow of Silence (2014), which received Best Experimental Short at the Black Star Film Festival.

She released the EP Succulent in April 2020.

Early life and education Be Steadwell was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She is the youngest of four children.

She received her BA from Oberlin College and a MFA in film from Howard University.

Career

Music Steadwell released weekly music videos on YouTube while at Howard. She released her first album, Queer Pop Mixtape in 2013, for which she gained wider prominence.

Steadwell sang at the 2017 Women's March on the National Mall behind Maxwell and Janelle Monáe in Toshi Reagon's Big Lovely Band.

Steadwell released an album called Queer Love Songs in June 2018. She described the album as “a collection of love songs I’ve written in the past ten years from my perspective as a super queer black woman who loves love.”

In April 2020 she released the EP Succulent. Steadwell stated that the album focuses on her enjoyment of sex. The sound was described as R&B, hip-hop, pop, and electronica. The channel had around 17,000 subscribers as of May 2025.

Personal life Steadwell is queer,

Discography

Albums

Queer Pop Mixtape (2013) RainWater EP (2013) Songaday (2014) Notes. Acoustic Love Songs (2015) SongaDay (2015) Jaded (2016) Breakup Songs (2017) Queer Love Songs (2018) Succulent (2020) Dear Ex, The Musical (2024)