Maria Isa: Valley of the Dolls

Singer, songwriter, actress, rapper, activist and international recording artist born in Minnesota to NuyoRican (Puerto Ricans from New York) parents, Maria Isa combines multi-cultural sounds hewn from the poetry of ancestral tradition and the rhythms of hip-hop renaissance. Never one to bite her tongue, Maria expresses her personal perspective on all issues that rise up as signs of the times; social and political injustices such as sexism, police brutality, technology, voting rights, and racism become fodder for vicious drum beats laden with sultry melodic lyrical shots fired. Maria Isa’s latest album, Valley of the Dolls, is the manifestation of everything Maria has experienced on her musical and spiritual journey and this release has been viewed as her finest work to date. Whether through her passionate vocals, attitude infused raps, virtuoso percussion work or astute socio-political commentary, she continues to leave her mark. The Valley of the Dolls project is the artful expression of a woman who wears many masks representative of who she is and where she became who she is. Fearless, Maria is unwilling to compromise those core values as they are attached from her music to her soul and offered up to those who want to rise up and dance until they have sweated out their troubles to find new solutions through sound. A t 15 she had already formed the AfroLatino ensemble Raices, whose mission was to conserve ancestral Puerto Rican heritage through folkloric music and dance. She received the Univision 13 Best Urban Artist Award for her album Street Politics. Maria received grand reviews for her role as Mimi in the Broadway Musical “Rent,” at the Guthrie Lab Theatre. Maria has shared stages with a “who’s who” list of international musicians (The Roots, Plena Libre, Los Pleneros de la 21, and Semisonic to name a few) and has recorded with some of the top producers in the industry. She was recently the only performing artist featured in Chicago’s Latin Fashion Week and shared a stage with Grammy Award Winning Chilean recording artist Ana Tijoux. Whether she’s selling out the historical First Avenue Mainroom to dominating New York Cities’ S.O.B’s BMI Publishing Latino Alternative Music Conference showcase, Maria continues to spread a message and create contemporary music fusing Latino rhythms, R&B Soul and HipHopto create a catalog of work which has been featured on numerous of National network shows such as ABC’s The B in APT 23, MTV’s Punk’d, The Paulie D Project, SNOOKI AND JWOW; E’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Oxy’s, The Bad Girls Club.

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