MAYSA'S 'METAMORPHOSIS': Jazz-funk songbird releases new disc.

      The soulful songbird has released her latest smooth jazz-funk-soul disc called “Metamorphosis” as well as begun a personal metamorphosis herself.

      The Baltimore native has paid her dues as a member of touring and recording groups through the ‘90s including Stevie Wonder’s female backup group Wonderlove and the British jazz-funk group Incognito. She went solo in 1995 and consistently put out six acclaimed (original) albums and has done her share of 'guesting' on dozens of albums for some legendary artists, groups, and producers.

     “My uncle turned me on to jazz music one day when he told me to turn on PBS to see Al Jarreau because he was scatting,” Maysa said of her inspired beginnings. “That was it. I was like, ‘I have to do this.’ My mom took me to see Melba Moore when I was six. As soon as Melba Moore opened her mouth, in the play ‘Purlie’, I was like, ‘I don’t think there is anything else I want to do.  I remember my heart feeling too big for my chest and being extremely excited about what she was doing. And knowing at the point, as six years old, that that was what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”

      Knowing her calling at such an early age, it’s quite interesting to find that even fans don’t know what to call or categorize her music as. While Maysa gladly accepts the ‘Are you soul or are you jazz' question, she really sees herself as more of a jazz-funk singer.

      “It’s all the same to me,” she said. “Whatever comes from your spirit to me is soul music.”

       Maysa has been compared to a number of soul-jazz songbirds including Anita Baker, Sade, and Phyllis Hyman, and she told EUR’s Lee Bailey that upon those comparisons, though flattered, she became determined to create a name for herself and find her own sound. She explained that the combination of her degree in classical performance, her opera training, her experiences, and her size; she found her voice.

      According to Maysa and her education, a singer’s body has a lot to do with their sound, referencing how some people could hear a difference in the late Luther Vandross’ voice after he lost weight.

      “Your voice resonates from your body cavity,” she explained, and continued that that fact was a crutch of sorts in her weight loss attempts. But now, “Metamorphosis” refers to more than just her new album. The singer is making body changes herself.

      “I’m really on my metamorphosis now, though. It really shouldn’t matter in this day and age, but the world is the world,” she said.

      “I have a beautiful life,” she continued. “I have a wonderful family and I have a beautiful career. It’s been hard on me in some instances. In some instances, I haven’t had the right publicity and marketing during the last 18 years. I think if I had done that, I would have been a more widely known person as a singer. But I am blessed with a very large core of people that support my music. All I ask is to go to the next level that will make people think of me and further my career and help me become more financially stable.”

      Maysa is confident with her new label, Shanachie, that she’s able to take her future into her hands and share her vision with music fans.

      “They show me a lot of respect and they respect my choices musically and they respect me period,” she said of the record company, “and I think that’s why we work so well together.”

      “I did a classic soul album with them and they came to me and asked if I wanted to do another record with them. I said, ‘It wouldn’t be another covers record.’ For my people, I need to put out my music again. It was fun doing the covers and I’m really honored that I was able do that, but it’s time for me to express myself again as a songwriter and a producer.”

      Maysa also works well with producers Rex Rideout and Chris Davis.

      “We work like brothers and sister,” she said of putting the album together. “Pure magic happens. When you have people that are of like mind and spirit, it’s easier to do. I work with people that don’t have egos. I’m not a diva and these guys are nice and considerate. I tend to gravitate to people like that.”

       Fans can gravitate to Maysa via her website at www.maysa.com.

       “See the changes I’m making; the metamorphosis,” she proudly said.

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