May 2022, Maya Interview In Daily Sabah, Cover Of Arts Section

With her refreshing yet calming style, singer Maya Azucena performs a setlist featuring pop, reggae and soul classics along with some rap tracks and a few Turkish numbers on Istanbul’s stages. Here is a sincere interview with the warm-spirited vocalist who divulges details about her life and music

Certain songs have the ability to entrance us, giving us goosebumps and taking us on a journey beyond time. The intensity of emotion is at its highest level at such moments. If that song touches our hearts as much as it appeals to our ears, it encourages us to think, act and heal. As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said: “This is why the effect of music is stronger than other arts, that is why it penetrates you. Because at most they speak of the shadow, whereas the music speaks of the essence.”

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