Maya Delilah

A 24-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist from North London, Maya Delilah attended

the prestigious BRIT School whose alumni include Adele, Amy Winehouse, and FKA

twigs, among many others. In 2020, lockdown put a pause on the background session

work Maya had begun to do within her community of music-making friends, so she

turned to livestreams and TikTok where she built up a devoted following with unadorned

clips where she would sit cross-legged on the floor, a bed, or a table, her fingernails

dancing over the strings, making the guitar sing out whole moods. Over the course of

two self-released EPs (2020’s Oh Boy, 2021’s It’s Not Me, It’s You), she amassed more

than 50 million streams of fan favorites like “Breakup Season” and “Tangerine Dream”

that greeted heartache with humor. Maya began releasing music on Blue Note/Capitol in

2022, reinterpreting Cassandra Wilson’s cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” for Blue

Note Re:imagined II, and following with a string of singles including “Pretty Face.” Maya

was named to the Fender Next “Class of 2024” — a huge co-sign from the guitar brand

she’s been playing since age 8 — and has also been named a 2025 Spotify “Artist To

Watch.”