MARIA ISA y BAKERS DOZEN BAND-*Keys and Trumpet=The GoodFellas aka Alto Estylo & Freddie Kruger*Percussion:LuisElMasTripiao*Guitar:Rohan "Pa'lante" Arora*Bass:Naj "Da Bear/El Oso"* Drums:D-CO *Back-up Vocalist: Golden Boy Yvette "coqui" Iris *1s&2s: DJ GANZOBEAN
Special featurings: Dj Wrek(1s&2s), David Alvarez (Percussion), Tearra Rosario (Back-up Vocals) Brandon Donald (Drum kit), and Nick "da wolf" Woods (Drum kit)!!!!
Make-up Artist- YVETTE IRIS MAKE-UP
Much Love to Raices!!!! RIP 2 EMETRECE PRODUCTIONS' GITANA MC!! WE MISS YOU MA & WE STILL GOT DEM GREENIES!!
Be on the look out for upcoming productions of RAICES (EL ARCO IRIS CENTER FOR ARTS) Y BEBO "AYE BENDITO!"
Check out the official webpage www.mariaisa.com!!! You can now purchase "M.I. SPLIT PERSONALITIES" online!!! Also available at The Electric Fetus, Cheapo Records, and Phantom Vox Puerto Rico!!!
Influences
La Bomba de Puerto Rico! Groups like La Familia Cepeda, Paracumbe, Africaribe "Evaristo Rodriguez", Los Pleneros de la 21, Yerba Buena all da others that keep it real for nuestra cultura. Mila Llauger, The Greats of Motown, Fania All-Stars, La Lupe, Eddie Palmieri, Miguel Pinero, Lolita Lebron, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, Wu-Tang Clan, Sugarhill Gang, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Tupac, Biggie Smalls B.I.G, Big Pun, Freestyle music like TKA!! (WOW I KNOW CRAZY THANX MASSI!) Queen Latifah, La Mala, Eve, Lauren Hill, Alicia Keys, Erekah Badu, La India, Selena, Missy Elliot, MC LYTE, TLC, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Aaliyah, Maya Angelou, Sharon Sayles Belton, Shay, Mabel Mercer, Billy Holiday, In Puerto Rico Tego Calderon, Vico C, Ivy Queen, Velcro, Tek 1, Abrante!
La Familia:
Mis Abuelitas Cayita and Aminta, Uelitos Kiko y Felix, MAMI and Papi, ONe OF DA BIGGEST Influences MY BROTHA HAREL AKA RAY RAY, da Vega Perez and Ortiz Gonzalez fam. to many primos to name off but ya know who they is..if not just wait til we blow things up... they'll be all around!! :-)
respect to Los Nativos especially Felipe Chautli, Melisa Riviere Emetrece Productions, RESPECT! Rhymesayers, aND MANY MORE!! MUCH LUV TO THE HIP HOP COMMUNITIES AROUND DA WORLD ESPECIALLY TO HIP-HOP IN DA LAND OF 10,000 LAKES
Sounds Like
Maria Isa!! or maybe ya know her as Moochie or Maria Isabelle Perez Vega, or maybe da Young Lolita, Maria Mar, yeah she sounds like all of them :-)
MARIA ISA
Emcee // Singer // Songwriter
Born and raised in the Twin Cities to Nuyorican parents, emcee, singer, and songwriter Maria Isa is recognized for her dedication towards celebrating her cultural diversity through music and her political activism. Influenced by the traditional Afro-Boricua ritmos of Bomba and Plena, along with Soul and Funk of Motown and Fania’s fusion of Salsa and Bugaloo, Isa plants an organic blend of call and response with lyrical "Spanglish" rhymes through the various drum beats and snares of Hip-Hop, Reggae, Dancehall and Reggaeton. In 1992 she started her performing arts education at El Arco Iris Center for Arts, forming Raices in 2002 with other advanced students to conserve their ancestral Puerto Rican folkloric music. Isa released her first independent album M.I. Split Personalities (EMETRECE) in May of 2007 and has been promoting her music in the Twin Cities and in Puerto Rico. She is known for delivering her message through a unique flow which is at times accompanied by her 9-piece band introducing the Sota-Rican essence. Many believe Maria Isa to be a young woman with the rays of revolutionizing the next generations of voices.
Maria Isa has just been casted to star as Angie in the independent film STRIKE ONE (www.strikeonefilms.com)
ALSO Be on the look out for her new EP from Sota Rico coming soon featuring the new track produced by Ganzobean "IMAGE."
" Isa’s sound is a 'call to order'.”
-Courtney Lewis
Minnesota Monthly/May 2007
"...the uber-talented Isa's amazing energy and verbal dexterity (aka the ability to sound dope just shit-talking over a classic break beat)... Prevent having to lie about seeing Isa live before she goes big time forever."
-Jordon Seldom
City Pages "Lightning and Thunder" Review/March 2008
"...Maria is an immensely charming and intelligent individual who also happens to be one of the more driven young musicians I've had the pleasure to meet."
-Jay Boller
Minnesota Daily /March 2008
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photography aaron wojack www.aaronwojack.com
PEEP OUT MARIA ISA IN MINNESOTA MONTHLY MAY 2007 ARTICLE!!http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/May-2007/Maestra-of-Ceremonies/
PA'LANTE CON LOS FANATICOS Y QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!Photo by M.Riviere
Always repin' our Roots. Mi hermano y yo bailando bomba afuera de first ave!
LMaria Isa with Tego 2005 Atlantic Release Tego After-Party Bombazo en SotaRico-Minneapolis La Bodega Emetrece Productions, Maria Isa, Raices
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Moochie chillin' with Tito Puente...with my bro and Uelo Kiko
THE BAND CLOWNING AROUND IN THE BUBBLE! :-)
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R.I.P GITANA MC 1995-2007 "MATANDO LAS GATAS SIEMPRE!"
Thanx 4 supportin' Independent Artists like myself baby, keep been real wit it and spread the word about this Gutta Nigga who can also be found now at CDBABY. COM or RHAPSODY where's you can cop any of my single joints or whole albums all day, keepin' it straight Westcoast Hip-Hop on that ass the whole year around! -1- Stay 100% Hater Free Don Cutec
