Альбомы исполнителя
Music for Your Soul
2023 · альбом
I Don't Mind
2023 · сингл
Whatever
2022 · сингл
Just Stay
2022 · сингл
Make Sure You're Sure
2022 · сингл
It's Christmas
2021 · сингл
Soft Words
2021 · сингл
Lovin' you Is Easy
2020 · сингл
Live at the Birchmere
2020 · альбом
It's Gonna Be Alright (The Nigel Lowis Remix)
2020 · сингл
It's Gonna Be Alright
2020 · сингл
Franqueza
2019 · сингл
Hino Ao Amor
2019 · сингл
I´m a Fool To Want You
2019 · сингл
Meu Mundo Caiu
2019 · сингл
You Are Not Alone
2018 · сингл
Love Is A Battlefield
2017 · альбом
Back 2 Love
2015 · альбом
A Very Maysa Christmas
2014 · альбом
Blue Velvet Soul
2013 · альбом
Motions Of Love
2011 · альбом
The Very Best Of Maysa
2011 · сборник
A Woman In Love
2010 · альбом
Metamorphosis
2008 · альбом
Sweet Classic Soul
2006 · альбом
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Биография
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, jazz-soul singer/songwriter Maysa Leak embarked on a singing career at an early age. By the age of six, she had already determined that she was going to be a singer, and she spent her elementary and high school days performing in choir and musical theater productions. Maysa majored in classical voice performance at Morgan State University; during her studies there she began writing and recording original material. She also placed second in Baltimore's first annual Billie Holiday Vocal Jazz Contest and auditioned for Stevie Wonder's vocal group Wonderlove. She was accepted into the group but joined only after she had earned her degree from Morgan State. Upon graduating, Maysa moved to North Hollywood to perform with Wonderlove on the Jungle Fever soundtrack and appeared in live and televised performances to promote the film. To pay her rent, Maysa also recorded jingles on her days off from performing with Wonderlove and worked at local record shops. In 1991, she was recommended to the British funk-jazz group Incognito by producer Steve Harvey, a mutual friend of Maysa's and of the band's leader, Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick. Maysa moved to London and joined the band in time to record the 1992 album Scribes, Tribes & Vibes, which included the hit single "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing." She also recorded the 1993 album Positivity with Incognito before returning to Baltimore in 1994 to record her first solo album, Maysa. "What About Our Love," the album's single, reached number 52 on Billboard's Hot 100. In 1997, Maysa returned to Incognito and recorded Beneath the Surface. During this time she began collaborating with the neo-blues group Grainger, and appeared on their album Phase 1; she also recorded with Rick Braun, Rachel Z, Rhythm Logic, and Pieces of a Dream. Incognito's No Time Like the Future followed in 1999. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Maysa was remarkably productive as a solo artist and continued to be appreciated more in the U.K. than in the U.S. The varied All My Life (2000), Out of the Blue (2002), and Smooth Sailing (2004) featured an array of sophisticated R&B, lush deep house, and crossover jazz, as well as covers of songs originally recorded by Sly & the Family Stone, Gil Scott-Heron, and Earth, Wind & Fire. In 2006, she began a lengthy association with the Shanachie label. Sweet Classic Soul (2006) and Feel the Fire (2007) were highlighted by reinterpretations of the Stylistics, Luther Vandross, Commodores, and Evelyn King, while Metamorphosis (2008), A Woman in Love (2010), and Motions of Love (2011) were dominated by new songs written by and with the likes of longtime associate Rex Rideout, Will Downing, Ledisi, and Chris Davis. Maysa considered Blue Velvet Soul (2013), her tenth solo album, to be her best work. She followed it with a holiday album, A Very Maysa Christmas (2014), and Back to Love (2015), the latter of which featured Phil Perry and Mint Condition's Stokley Williams. In 2017, Maysa released Love Is a Battlefield, a covers LP that saw her delivering soulful renditions of songs by the Isley Brothers, Luther Vandross, Natalie Cole, and Pat Benatar, among others. ~ Heather Phares & Andy Kellman, Rovi