Biography

After living in the Los Angeles metro area for most of her life, Maia Sharp moved to Nashville at the beginning of 2019, partly to be in an unapologetically songwriter centric town and partly as a personal life reboot. It was there that she made Mercy Rising, due out May 7, 2021. Maia has always managed to play both sides of the songwriting field, writing for notable artists including Bonnie Raitt, The Chicks, Lisa Loeb, Trisha Yearwood, Art Garfunkel, Cher, Edwin McCain, Terri Clark and many more while still recording her own albums. Through the years Hardly Glamour (1997 Ark 21), Maia Sharp (2002 Concord), Fine Upstanding Citizen (2005 Koch), Echo (2010 Blix Street), Change the Ending (2012 Blix Street) and The Dash Between the Dates (2015 Crooked Crown) have all enjoyed critical acclaim and Triple A radio success. Her last two releases were with her duo Roscoe & Etta (with writing/production partner Anna Schulze) and featured singles “Broken Headlights” and “Burn.” In her new full length solo album, Maia combines recent influences such as Phoebe Bridgers and Jason Isbell with lifers Bonnie Raitt and Paul Simon. Mercy Rising’s digital singles “Whatever We Are” and “When the World Doesn’t End” feat. P.J. Pacifico are available now with “You’ll Know Who Knows You” and “Backburner” coming soon. Maia has always put songwriting first and that care of the craft has become the thread that makes her seemingly variant genres all fit together easily.