When Maya Wagner stumbled across Tinashe’s home studio tour on YouTube in 2013, her life-long love of songwriting bloomed from a hobby into a career goal. At 12 years old, Maya invested her meager life savings into creating her own micro-studio in her Central New Jersey bedroom, and the rest was history.

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With the Ableton Live Intro license that came with her first MIDI controller, Maya began teaching herself to produce music. When she wasn’t at her high school’s theatre rehearsals, she was most likely locked in her bedroom creating songs. She’d found her passion: taking the little song seeds planted in her head and turning them into fully mastered tracks, all on her own.

After attending Berklee College of Music’s Summer Songwriting Workshop the summer following her sophomore year of high school, Maya set her sights on attending the school. In December 2018, just one week after auditioning, Maya received an emailed acceptance letter during english class, from which she promptly stood up, stated “I have to go,” and left to call her moms with the news.

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Summer 2019 was a big oner for Maya. She was awarded the Kennedy Center’s VSA International Soloists Award, an award presented annually to talented young musicians with disabilities. The award was presented by The First Lady of The United States and honored Maya’s courage as a performing artist who speaks openly about her experiences with Tourette Syndrome.

After performing at The Kennedy Center and receiving her award, Maya was off to perform at ArtsQuest’s Musikfest, where she and her all-female band played two back-to-back Friday sets in the heart of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She went on to play Musikfest twice again in years following.

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After an extraordinary Summer, it was off to Berklee, where Maya began her formal music production studies. After her first semester, Maya released her debut single, “Sink In,” a song describing a negative experience she had with substances. After releasing a few more singles, Maya released her first EP, Closeted, a collection of songs about her romantic journey as a queer person, during Pride Month, June 2021.

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During her time at Berklee, Maya also began posting electronic performance videos, and music production tutorials of her own. After being noticed on social media by start-up electronic instrument company Artiphon, Maya joined their team as a sound designer and synthesist while continuing her studies.

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In addition to producing her own songs, Maya has produced for other queer female artists. She produced MØNA’s 2022 EP, written in the stars, along with Emily Horton’s debut collection, when it gets dizzy.

Maya completed her undergraduate studies in three years, leaving her a graduate at 21 years old with a degree in Electronic Production and Design.

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Maya would graduate as a three-time awardee of Berklee’s Songs for Social Change Award in recognition of her writing about mental illness and LGBTQ experiences, making her an awardee every year she was eligible.

Social change is a phrase that fits Maya’s music well, with her most popular track, “I Miss Her Body,” powerfully expressing the cognitive dissonance that lingers as she recovers from an eating disorder.

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Maya currently resides in New York City, where she actively creates content for her growing TikTok and Instagram audiences, writes and produces music for herself and others, and works professionally in music technology.