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| Maya Azucena, artist, humanitarian, entrepreneur |
A few years ago, she was the feature performer at Symponics Live at Bowery Poetry Club. I was moved enough by her music to chat with her after the show. I fell in love with her music because it is emotionally charged. I love her stage presence and, of course, her hair. When I attended a later show; she remembered me, always had a warm, welcoming energy. Last week between a recording session and before her guest DJ gig at the Nu Hotel she sat down with me for this interview.
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Hi, I’m Maya Azucena, I am from Brooklyn,
New York—that always comes immediately
after every description of myself—I am an artist, a humanitarian and an
entrepreneur. Business woman, basically.
Do you blend a lot of
your humanitarian work into your music? Is that the message behind your music?
My social activism work is extremely integrated into my
music. I think it all started with feeling that my songwriting was a way that I
could help people. I have very strong convictions about injustices in
the world and my heart just goes out to those that struggle. I’ve had my own
struggles. I think what followed writing songs that had cultural and socially
relevant themes was representing those themes at benefit events and branding it
in a way where it’s me as an artist meshed with me as a humanitarian.
