We are Maria & James and we’re currently studying in our final year at Newcastle University! Over the past few months we have developed our songwriting and decided to release our music onto Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube.
We have been featured on BBC Introducing York & North Yorkshire, Tees and the North East, along with working on our newest track ‘Alice’ with the brilliant Keith Carlock (drummer for Steely Dan, John Mayer and many more). We are so excited to be working on our first album, hopefully coming out in a few months time and would love for people to have a listen to our music!
Linked below is our Spotify and YouTube page, where you can find our most recent songs, along with other videos we have uploaded to YouTube.
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