Maya Lavelle

Maya Lavelle
Background information
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
  • Composer
  • Producer
Instruments
Labels Maya Lavelle Records
Associated acts
Website www.mayalavelle.com

Maya Lavelle is a Dutch singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and music video producer with Yugoslavian roots.[1]

Career

Maya composed several music for films. She is an independent artist with her own label[2] and her debut pop single, This Ain't The End was aired on MTV and first premiered with the movie, The Rift.[3][4] This song was also thought to be in the final episode (episode 16) of season 6 of The Walking Dead[5][6] to be aired on April 3, 2016 but the artist denied that on her YouTube video.[7] That did not stop blogs conjecturing on the meaning of the words to spell the possible death of characters Daryl or Glenn.[8][9]

She followed this up with the summer anthem "Free Your Mind", for which she was executive producer and art director of the music video.[10] Then came "Amazon", an ecological call to the preservation of The Earth’s lungs, the Amazon rainforest.[11][12] For this she even used sound recordings she made of crickets and birds in Brazil. A similar theme continued with her metaphorically titled song "Zombie Town" which is set in a post-apocalyptic future caused by the negligence of the human race towards climate change.[13][14]

Her song Ben was featured on BBC Introducing [15] and reached Number 1 in the iTunes Top Charts in Netherlands on 19 December 2017.

Early Life and Artistry

Photo: From her debut single "This Ain't The End"

As a classically trained composer, she won prizes such as for ‘Best Piece’ in the Young Composers Meeting competition in Appeldoorn, Netherlands. She was chosen to represent Netherlands for the Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Talent Campus as a Film Composer.[16]

Maya Lavelle's cites her influences as pop, electronic and classical music. For writing her music, she has mainly been inspired through cinema and literature. Aesthetically, Tim Burton has been a large influence on her music. She cites her music is to twist reality and allow the audience to see the world from a different perspective - a fantasy world with special places and remarkable characters.[17] She has a masters degree in advanced composition and orchestration at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She funded herself until now through scoring for film and theater, teaching piano, and as an artist for MEMO to stimulate cognitive development in children through music.[18]

When she was a kid, she was diagnosed with synesthesia, not only with the form of synesthesia called chromesthesia but also the less common visual to auditory synesthesia.[19]

Maya Lavelle creates the arrangements for her music herself - scoring for live instruments and producing electronic sounds with Logic.[20]

Discography

  • This Ain't The End
  • Free Your Mind
  • Amazon
  • Zombie Town
  • Ben

References

  1. ↑ "Maya Lavelle website". www.mayalavelle.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Maya Lavelle: la princesa de una aventura que apenas comienza". www.revistaladosis.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Poslušajte pesmu za prvi srpski SF triler". www.mtv.rs. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  4. ↑ "More In swings with 'The Monkey King 2'". www.screendaily.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  5. ↑ "Leaked song may have revealed Walking Dead season six finale". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  6. ↑ "Rumored The Walking Dead Finale Song Might Offer Clues On Who Dies". www.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  7. ↑ Maya Lavelle (2016-03-10), Maya Lavelle - This Ain't The End (Film Soundtrack), retrieved 2016-03-24
  8. ↑ "'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Finale Predictions Are Going Crazy! Who Will Die And Who Will Live Going Into Season 7? Here's An Update (PHOTOS)". Hollywood Take. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  9. ↑ "'Walking Dead' season 6 spoilers: Rumored deaths by the end of the season". www.vinereport.com. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  10. ↑ Maya Lavelle (2017-11-01), Maya Lavelle - Free Your Mind, retrieved 2017-11-01
  11. ↑ "'Maya Lavelle - A Different Look at Life'". www.http://larksflight.webs.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01. External link in |website= (help)
  12. ↑ Maya Lavelle (2017-11-01), Maya Lavelle - Amazon, retrieved 2017-11-01
  13. ↑ "Maya Lavelle: la princesa de una aventura que apenas comienza". www.revistaladosis.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  14. ↑ Maya Lavelle (2017-11-01), Maya Lavelle - Zombie Town, retrieved 2017-11-01
  15. ↑ "Maya Lavelle: BBC Introducing". www.revistaladosis.com. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  16. ↑ "Maya Lavelle". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  17. ↑ "'Maya Lavelle - A Different Look at Life'". www.http://larksflight.webs.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01. External link in |website= (help)
  18. ↑ Memo, Stichting. "Memo | Ouders". www.memorabelemomenten.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  19. ↑ "'Maya Lavelle - A Different Look at Life'". www.http://larksflight.webs.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01. External link in |website= (help)
  20. ↑ "'Maya Lavelle - A Different Look at Life'". www.http://larksflight.webs.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01. External link in |website= (help)


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