12 Aug 2014

Feature album - Maysa's debut album (1995)

From Afternoons, 2:46 pm on 12 August 2014

Our feature album is the debut album for an artist who left Morgan State University in Baltimore City in the early 80s, graduating with a degree in classical performance. She performed there as a member of the world famous Morgan State University Choir and met performer Stevie Wonder during a college performance. Maysa Leak headed to Southern California to perform with Stevie Wonder's female backup group Wonderlove and it was during an over-the-telephone audition in the early 90s, that Maysa become a member of the acclaimed British jazz/funk/R&B band Incognito and in 1992 she relocated to London.