Welcome to MaYita Music
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BIOGRAPHY
Artist Overview
MaYita is a Colombian-born, New York–based artist whose work lives at the intersection of ceremonial music, collective prayer, and contemporary sound design. Her music is rooted in deep listening, relational artistry, and lived experience through ceremony. Each project unfolds as a sonic altar – prayers and invitations into presence, remembrance, and shared humanity.
Her albums MAYA and SOMOS form a continuous prayer, a journey from individual remembrance toward collective awakening. Drawing from ancestral memory, devotional practice, and future-facing sound, MaYita’s work bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary expression with care, humility, and integrity.
MaYita collaborates in long-term relationships with Indigenous elders, musicians, and communities from Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and beyond, honoring clear boundaries around ceremonial knowledge while translating essence into music meant for listening spaces, theaters, and festivals worldwide.
Artistic Approach
MaYita’s music is designed for deep encounters and shared listening. Her compositions are spacious, vocal-centered, and rhythmically intentional, allowing listeners to enter states of reflection, emotional openness, and embodied presence.
Her work emerges in relationship with territory, honoring the lands, waters, and ancestral memories that shape collective experience. Through sound, MaYita invites a remembering that is both personal and communal, creating spaces where audiences can sense their belonging within a wider human and ecological field.
Her performances are ceremonially informed concerts, honoring lineage while remaining accessible, respectful, and appropriate for public cultural spaces. These gatherings support moments of collective attunement, where listening becomes a form of connection and gentle awakening.
Her work is often described as:
- Devotional, immersive, and expansive
- Rooted in collective voice, listening, and shared presence
- Emotionally grounding, expansive, and initiatory
- Oriented toward community resonance, unity, and collective remembrance
- Designed for presence
DISCOGRAPHY
MAYA: the album
MAYA, her first solo album, is the result of several years of spiritual transformation, culminating in 9 songs with profound codes of life and knowledge.
From the activation of early memories and the essential role of music in the fabric of the universe, through the knowledge and use of power plants, to reflections on the magic and truth that reside within each of us; MAYA is an album laden with meanings and reflections that delve into the human condition and the mission that each person fulfills in the world today.
“This album serves as a platform to share the medicinal practices that have been entrusted to me, shedding light on the role of earth keepers and their tools. It is an invitation to those who resonate with this mission, inviting them to join as fellow guardians on this journey.”
The MAYA album directly addresses the role of being earth keepers, facilitates connections between territories, lineages, and prayers, and helps establish alliances across the Americas and the world.
1. Recuerda
2. Colibrí
3. Tabakito (feat. Paulo Nacua)
4. IAMAYAM
5. En Mi Corazón
6. Call Me Home
7. SomoS (feat. Samantha Starr)
8. Canten Dios+s
9. Truth (feat. Natavi)
Release: June 6 2024
Music Production: Eric Hoegemeyer & MaYita
Music Mix: Eric Hoegemeyer
Mastering Engineer: Jim Kissling
Artists: Paulo Nacua, Samantha Starr, Natavi
Cover Art: Direction, Illustration & Animation: Sebastián Bravo
Poetry & Marketing: Leandro Vinasco
SomoS: A Musical Prayer for Unity
Release date: June 25, 2025
Emerging from the depths of the heart of the earth and seeking connection with the vastness of the cosmos that surrounds us, SOMOS is born—the second album by MaYita Music.
SOMOS is a new part of MaYita’s musical journey that goes beyond the call to remembrance of Recuerda and rises as a polyphonic album for the healing of humanity, for balance and harmony with all that surrounds us.
This prayer, anchored in the ancestral wisdoms of the Americas and woven with the frequencies of our allies across the world, is at once an offering to the sacred that dwells within each of us and unites us as a community.
With every heartbeat, with every beat of the drum, in every voice that has joined this adventure, SOMOS reminds us that humanity vibrates in unison, that we are all earth, spirit and creation.
SOMOS: Alliances and Collaborations
SOMOS is a polyphonic and ceremonial experiment where the many voices of powerful guardians offer their prayers, wisdom, and soul to the work of MaYita.
This sonic prayer has been woven and developed with the participation and presence of:
- Willa Kveta – My beloved wife, a voice of pure light, weaving celestial harmonies that uplift the spirit.
- Abuela Ana María (Ecoaldea Atlántida Colombia) – A wisdom keeper, anchoring the music in the ancestral memory of the land. She shares her profound prayer to the Mother and to the Earth.
- El Tejido de los Clanes – The sacred altar of the Vision Quest at Eco Atlántida, infusing the music with the energy of deep ceremonial and communal work.
Tracklist:
1 – Mis Abuelas (Feat. Abuela Ana María Hoyos Álvarez)
Original song by Bachan Kaur (Danza de La Luna)
2 – Gran Espíritu (Feat. Willa Kveta)
Original song by Bruno Mansur and Cristina de la Paz (“Corazón Es Lo Único Que Tengo”)
3 – Oska Iye (Feat. Willa Kveta & Family of Fire)
Original song by Canto Muisca
4 – Medicina De Amor
Original song by MaYita
5 – Nueva Humanidad
Original song by Paz Shanti
6 – I Believe (Feat. Willa Kveta)
Original song by MaYita
7 – Llama Violeta (Feat. Willa Kveta)
Original song by Ivan Donalson
8 – Aquí Estoy (Feat. El Tejido de los Clanes)
Original song by MaYita
9 – La Palabra
Original song by MaYita.
All songs have been produced and arranged by Eric Hoegemeyer and MaYita.
Credits:
- Mixing Engineer: Eric Hoegemeyer
- Mastering Engineer: Jim Kissling
- Illustration, Design and Visual Direction: Sebastián Bravo Guerrero
- Photography and video: Willa Kveta
- Direction & Editing: Palu Abadía
- Social Media: Jessica Alejandra Londoño
- Web Communications: Leandro Vinasco Agudelo
INSTRUMENTALS
The path of MaYita Music continues to unfold, and in this moment a new chapter opens. For years, music has been the bridge that taught me to remember. MAYA awakened that inner remembrance. SOMOS expanded the prayer toward the community.
Now, the instrumental albums reveal the thread that has always united these two works: a single flow of vibration, a journey from the “I” to the “we.”
The instrumental versions were born to reveal what breathes beneath the voice. They are the energetic skeleton of MAYA and SOMOS: the pure intention, the pulse, the invisible architecture that holds each song.
Without words, each track becomes a space of ceremony, contemplation, and integration—a place to listen from the heart and to enter the prayer without distraction.
LATEST VIDEO RELEASE
Music: MaYita & Eric Hoegemeyer
Direction: Palu Abadia & Sebastián Bravo
Ilustrations, Animations & Visual Effects: Sebastián Bravo
Production: Nena Sierra & Palenque
Photography: Willa Kveta
Camera: Palu Abadia, Gisela Sanders, John Ruiz
Edit: Palu Abadía
Color Correction: Miguel Sanzón
Lighting: Kelvin De La Cruz & John Ruiz
Marketing and Word: Leandro Vinasco
LIVE SETUP
Center Vocal
Stage Left Vocal
Center Guitar/Uke Mic
Stage Right Keys/Ableton Stereo DI
Stage Right Marimba Stereo mics
Stage Right Drum 1 mic
***Vocal send from board to Keyboard rig for dub fx if poss
XLR outs L/R for recording
1 Video proyector (8000 lumens at least)
1 Comfortable table
Center Vocal
Center Guitar/Uke Mic
Stage left Keys/Ableton Stereo DI
1 Video proyector (8000 lumens at least)
1 Comfortable table and chair
Live Performance Formats
MaYita offers modular live formats adaptable to theaters, festivals, cultural institutions, listening rooms, and ceremonial spaces.
OPTION I — SOLO CEREMONIAL SET
MaYita — Voice, Electronics, Live Processing
Configuration
- 1 Performer
- 1 Vocal Mic
- Laptop, controller, live vocal processing
Atmosphere
Intimate, devotional, immersive. A guided listening journey led by voice and frequency.
Ideal for
- Listening rooms
- Galleries and sacred spaces
- Intimate theaters
- Opening or closing rituals
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OPTION II — DUO SET
MaYita + One Musician
- With Willa — Ukulele & Voice
Organic, acoustic, and tender. Emphasizes warmth, harmony, and communal listening.
- With Eric — Electronics & Percussion
Visionary, rhythmic, and expansive. Supports movement-oriented audiences and festival settings.
Atmosphere
Balanced between ceremony and concert. Dynamic while remaining intimate.
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OPTION III — FULL ENSEMBLE (Quartet)
MaYita, Eric, Willa, Gina
Instrumentation
- Voice and live processing
- Electronics and percussion
- Ukulele and voice
- Bass and voice
Atmosphere
Expansive, collective, and deeply musical. A living altar on stage.
Ideal for
- Festivals
- Cultural theaters
- International showcases
- Closing ceremonies
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OPTION IV — LIVE VISUAL ARTIST / VJ (Add-On)
Available as an enhancement to any performance format.
Approach
Live visuals are created in real time in dialogue with the music. Visual language is slow, intentional, and immersive, supporting deep listening rather than distraction. Imagery may include abstract light, elemental textures, nature-based visuals, or symbolic motion aligned with the sonic journey.
Atmosphere
Immersive and contemplative. Visuals function as an extension of the sonic altar, enhancing emotional resonance and presence.
Ideal for
- Festivals with dedicated visual stages
- Cultural theaters and multimedia venues
- Planetariums or immersive environments
All visual content honors the same ethical boundaries as the music and does not reproduce ceremonial or ritual imagery.
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OPTION V – ORCHESTRAL / LARGE ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (Special Commission)
Available through advance planning and commissioning.
Configuration
- MaYita — Voice and live processing
- Chamber orchestra, string ensemble, or hybrid orchestra (variable size)
- Optional inclusion of MaYita’s core ensemble
Approach
This format translates MaYita’s ceremonial compositions into a symphonic and collective language, emphasizing breath, harmonic depth, and spacious dynamics. Orchestral elements are integrated with care, preserving the listening-centered and devotional nature of the work.
Ideal for
- Cultural institutions and concert halls
- International festivals
- Special commissions, residencies, or landmark events
Orchestral performances are developed in close collaboration with presenters to ensure artistic coherence, ethical alignment, and appropriate context.
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All formats can adapt to seated listening, ceremonial contexts, or standing concert environments.
