Maia Sharp

Vocalist and songwriter Maia Clear has a skill for passionate, emotionally honest music about lifestyle and like which have won her a loyal enthusiast following being a performer along with the ultimate present of respect from her peers — her music have been included in a multitude of music artists, including Bonnie Raitt, the Dixie Chicks, Cher, Tricia Yearwood, Lisa Loeb, and Keb’ Mo’. Maia Clear was created in California’s Central Valley in 1971; her dad, Randy Clear, was a songwriter and documenting musician, while her mom, Sharon Bays, was a university professor who trained anthropology and acquired performed being a vocalist in her youthful times. When Maia was four, her family members moved to LA, and a calendar year afterwards the precocious youngster composed her first melody, “Ghosts.” Maia became efficient on several equipment, including keyboards, electric guitar, oboe, and saxophone, and afterwards examined music theory at California Condition School at Northridge, where she begun to explore her like of songwriting. In 1992 her dad invited Maia to try out horns and keyboards on That’s Another Tale, an record he trim in cooperation with Karen Brooks, and by 1993 Clear began executing her very own music in LA clubs. Clear was uncovered by Mls Copeland, who handled the authorities and went I.R.S. Information within the ’70s and ’80s, and authorized Clear to his Ark 21 label. In 1997 Clear released her debut recording, Barely Glamour, but Ark 21 had not been destined to last very long available on the market and she didn’t lower another recording until 2002, when she released the self-titled Maia Clear for Concord Information. That same yr, Sharp served like a support vocalist and program musician on Artwork Garfunkel’s recording Everything Waits to become Noticed, in addition to assisting the famed vocalist collection two of his poems to music. Three of Sharp’s tracks seems on Bonnie Raitt’s 2005 launch Souls Alike, and Clear was invited to try out sax for the classes. Also in 2005, Clear released her third single recording, Fine Upstanding Resident, through Koch, co-producing the recording with Brad Jones in addition to playing lots of the tools. In 2006 Clear was back again with recording number 4, Eve as well as the Crimson Delicious, documented with Darren Embry, and in ’09 2009 she released Echo, that was made by Don Was; the recording also presented a visitor appearance from Bonnie Raitt. By this time around, Sharp had are more deeply involved with studio work, creating Edwin McCain’s 2011 recording Mercy Bound and creating two new paths for the 2012 launch The Vocalist: THE MOST EFFECTIVE of Artwork Garfunkel. Clear would also make classes for Donny Anderson, Jenifer Freebairn, and Crystal Bowersox. In 2012, Clear became a member of her parents, Randy Clear and Sharon Bays, in addition to songwriter Jack port Wesley Routh, to get a Western-themed cooperation, Dreams of the San Joaquin; she also finished and released an recording of her personal, Change the Finishing, released on Blix Road. In 2015, Clear authorized a new documenting cope with Entertainment One Music and released The Dash Between your Dates, including shows from Eurythmics creator Dave Stewart.