:: Maya Jupiter :: Love of hip-hop
Maya Jupiter will be sharing creative space at the 2nd Annual Womyn in Hip-Hop Gathering Saturday, November 21st at El Centro Cultural de México. Stay ready!
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Born in La Paz, Mexico to a Mexican Father and Turkish Mother, Maya Jupiter grew up in Sydney, Australia. It was in Sydney’s Western Suburbs where she first fell in love with hip-hop.
Maya’s love of writing rhymes helped her express her fear, pain, joy and hope as a teenager and later on she realized the power music held in using it as a tool to make a positive difference in her community.
It is with this ideal that she co-founded Artivist Entertainment, an entertainment company committed to creating and supporting art and music that inspires positive social change alongside Quetzal Flores, Veronica Gonzales, Alberto Lopez and Aloe Blacc.
Maya has release two solo albums, the latest created with Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez of Grammy Award winning, EastLos rock band Quetzal and her husband, singer/songwriter Aloe Blacc. The album is inspired by Son Jarocho and stays true to Maya’s love of hip-hop, dancehall and soul, made up almost entirely of live instrumentation, including Mexican harp, tarima and jarana. Her lyrics are powerful, vibrant, and uplifting.
Maya’s first album ‘Today’ debuted in 2003 on Mother Tongues, the first label dedicated solely to women in hip-hop. She later performed with Latin Jazz band Son Veneno, formed a group called Foreign Heights, presented and produced several hip-hop radio shows including the national ‘triple j’s hip-hop show’ and her own ‘Black Beans, Brown Rice’ Radio show on www.radiosombra.org and was a VJ for Channel [V] Australia.
http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/mayajupiter
• • • • I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard De La Soul Tribe Called Quest embodying fun. I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard Lauryn Hill’s poetry and Public Enemy’s activism. I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard Queen Latifah talk about women’s rights and Salt n Pepa talk about Sex. I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard Naughty By Nature tell it like it is and Ice Cube talk about police brutality. I fell in love with hip-hop when I heard Nas telling stories and KRS-1 teach. I loved the diversity and spirit of the 90’s, we could learn a lot from that generation.
This Saturday in SanTana ❤!
