MAIA BALAM QUETZAL ARTS
PRESS KIT
Afro-Latin House - Global Bass
Hip-hop - Amazonian House
South American Bass & rythms
Cosmic Dub - Acid Jazz -
Singer, Flute Player & DJ
Maia Balam Quetzal is a young Mexican MC, DJ, and multi instrumentalist.
She brings in her pockets Latin American Tribal rhythms, Afro-Latin House & Global Bass blended with live Indigenous Instruments such as ocarinas, south american flutes and African drums.
Her live act consists of a trip around the world on a DJ set accompanied with live drums, ethnic instruments & conscious Hip-Soul vocals
in different languages: Spanish, English and Indigenous words,
all blended into a borderless message of equality and freedom.
Maia has performed at music festivals across the Amerikua Continent for the past 10 years, and performing and teaching workshops in Bali-Thailand-Australia in the past 6 years.
She has been a self taught musician and song writer for more than 20 years.
Her stage performance is an eclectic and multicultural one, that brings into scene ancient ethnic instruments from diverse Indigenous cultures, framed by the best rhythms of many worlds: the organic and synthetic, analog and digital, past and future.
Always in translation, bringing back the Indigenous tribal female spirit into the present moment.
Her best performances have not been recorded yet,
they have been casted into the wind.
as a DJ she has opened up for or/& singed improvised/MCeed/played flute beside:::
Nightmares on Wax (UK), Snatam Kaur, Guru Ganesh (EU), Ganga Giri (Australia), Erica Dee (Canada), Feathered Sun (Berlin), Drumpsyder (USA), Isaac Chambers (NZ), Lengualerta (Mx), Entheogenic (UK),
among many other wild ones.
