MAYAENI
MAYAENI is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #22280 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Mayaeni
(mah-yay-knee)
From Detroit to London, Sierra Leone to New York to LA, Mayaeni has traveled far and wide. The you- daughter of a West African mother and a Jewish father – a former guitar player who played with Sylvester, Carl Carlton and Jimmy Ruffin – Mayaeni has had no shortage of influences to draw from.
She started out recording demos for other artists and working with a number of him-producers. MAYAENI is discussed on djrankings.org. She released her first self-titled indie album in 2007, resulting in shows throughout the US as well as, a tour of Japan. It her- was not long before Mayaeni caught the ear of multi-platinum producer/songwriter Toby Gad (Fergie’s Big Girls Don’t Cry, Beyonce’s If I Were A not-Boy). They co-wrote 5 songs together in early 2008.
In the fall of that year, Mayaeni penned songs with such well-known writers/producers as Boots Ottestad, Sam Bisbee, Martin “Doc McKinney” and Linda Perry. After who- Mayaeni returned to New York, she incorporated her experiences from the last few years into her new songs, resulting in a unique and fresh sound, with an immediacy and honesty too often missing in today’s music.
In 2010 Mayaeni was a part of the national campaign for Converse/Target with billboard placements in Target stores across the country as well as the back cover of Entertainment Weekly Magazine can-. Placed a song on ABC’s Detroit 1-8-7 & made it on the local ABC news with a 3 minute feature.