Maz

MAZ has just completed her debut studio album 'Soul Tripping', with Producer/Engineer 'No Qualms’.

Sexy fat-ass beats to make you groove & grind!...

Think soulful, smooth, sensual & insightful and you have MAZ, one of the most exciting talents to come out of the oldest continent on the planet, Australia...

‘Early on I developed a great love for soul/R&B music...my older sister Sue did a jazz course at the WA conservatorium of music and had a 14 piece band called ‘Hothouse’ where they played funky R&B soul tunes....I was hooked!....even ended up doing backing vocals...that was the coolest introduction ...being right there singing the songs at such a young age.

After many lead roles in both drama & musicals, a singing scholarship, performing with soul bands throughout Perth and finishing my degree in media studies...I then packed up my life and moved across the country, to Sydney...

There I took vocal lessons, completed On Camera Connections Film and TV Acting workshops, sang on TV/radio commercials, demos galore, you know the deal. From there I quickly moved into many of the best gigs in Sydney, one of these includes the prestigious ‘Basement’ Club...

A few years ago, through a demo, I got an opportunity to go to the U.S. to songwrite in the City of Soul, Detroit, Motown itself! It was seriously a dream come true... I thought this was my Big Break... Dedicated I went back twice, unfortunately things didn’t pan out quite true, as I’m told they can often do in the music biz... so I came back, heartbroken & disappointed. I decided F**k it there was no way I was going to give up!....It was time to do my own thing, time to start living my lyrics!...sooo

The album, ‘Soul Tripping’ is a collection of my stories about love, loss, lust and having the courage to be yourself...

I knew my groove, my sound, would come from my love of soul music, fat beats, and the beauty of words and live instruments...all I needed was for someone to be able to capture that love, layer it with a bassline and a drum beat. When I met producer/engineer/rapper-singer ‘No Qualms’, we hit it off musically straight away. Next thing you know it’s a year and a half of late night recording sessions, in and amongst regular gigs, singing teaching and not much sleep... it hasn’t been an easy road, sometimes I was a blubbering emotional mess after a vocal session...poor quizzle. It wasn’t all deep & meaningful though, there’s lots of laughs & naughty takes that no-one will ever hear...well maybe in headphones!

SOUL TRIPPING is exactly how I envisaged it... soulful... sexy... cool... fresh... pop... and very NOW...

This album comes from a very deep place and hopefully not only will people want to move, groove & grind to it...but will find solace in the words and emotion behind it. I am so grateful to express myself and my truth.'