21-year-old Sunshine Coast singer-songwriter Mayah has rapidly evolved beyond her initial emerging artist status and is now making her mark as a prolific music machine, given she has written over 70 songs and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Since launching her first single in 2019 Mayah has formed a vibrant, dynamic rock band with some fabulous local talent and hit close to 600,000 collective streams on Spotify.
A strong advocate for mental, emotional and social well-being, Mayah has a particular interest in youth mental health and is an ambassador for the Sunshine Coast Nurture Festival.
A natural-born songwriter, Mayah is an intuitive, free-spirited talent with new sounds and songs constantly echoing in her head.
For her upcoming release Traffic Light which will be launched on 21 September, Mayah shifted gears and added a little spice to the mix, blending her signature rock/pop/folk sound with a more upbeat, contemporary, pop groove.
This song is a feelgood, captivating mix of electric guitar, rhythmic beats and piano, overlaid with Mayah’s unique and unmistakable vocals. Quintessentially catchy, the song sticks with you long after the last note has faded.
Mayah wrote the song in 2021 and explains, “Traffic Light reflects the ease with which many of us misinterpret each other, misrepresent ourselves, and misread situations. It was written for those of us who find it difficult to correctly interpret signals both romantically and otherwise. If only life were simpler…”
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Bob Brierty at Bobos Productions, Traffic Light is a crowd favourite at Mayah’s live shows on the Sunshine Coast and she is delighted to be able to share it through Gyrostream via all major online streaming platforms. The official lyric video clip will also be released in September.
Mayah regularly performs her acoustic guitar three-hour solo show around Southeast Queensland.
She performed with her band at the Nurture Festival in May 2023, at the Caloundra Music Festival in 2021 and 2022, and as the opening act for the ‘Fabulous Caprettos’ featuring Daryl Braithwaite, Russell Morris, Jack Jones, and Rai Thistlethwayte at Nightquarter in, 2022.
Mayah’s band also performed at the 2023 Yandina Street Fair and has plenty more gigs on the horizon.
