“My mum showed me how to play 3 chords and the next week I’d wrote 10 songs” I was 14. I’ve been quite a prolific songwriter since then and there’s still more to come.

Maria grew up in the North West of England and being a child of the eighties was engrossed with the big hair and rock guitars that dominated the charts.

“I always wanted to be the female U2 or Bon Jovi”

“My childhood was spent travelling from dads (home) to Grans and then mums every other weekend. Mum was studying a drama degree at Uni and so I kind of loved being around her and her student friends- the kind of people who encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to.”

“Dad always had on Billy Ocean and other chart heroes and I’d go to my mums and hear her singing along to Suzanne Vega in the bath.”

“I loved how chart music stayed with you all day but was always intrigued with the female singer songwriter gang-they said the kind of things I wanted to say.”

“I felt things deeper than anyone else, saw things others didn't and wanted to make the world a better place and these people got to sing about that, So when I had a few chords under my belt, out came all of the things I’d ever wanted to say from one thing to the next, it was all on paper. No going back.”

When you listen to Maria’s voice you can hear the depths of emotion that she talks about.

“Her singing voice is absolutely pure with a rock edge when she cranks up the stakes when required. A forceful melodic soaring, deep feminine voice that can easily shuffle from folk to all out rock at the flick of A SWITCH” - JB Manchester Music

There is a point in your life when you realise that your life is in your own hands and you choose how to live it. When you have been to the bottom, you never want to go back again. The Survival instincts kick in and nothing will stand in your way of success.

I’ve played in and out of bands for years and it never felt quite right. I ended up wanting to sing my own songs and wanted them to sound a particular way. I knew the only way was to work with a producer.

It took a while and a few hard lessons but finally Maria knew someone who knew a producer who produced the kind of music she loved. The American “West Coast” rock sound.

“I love the way drums and bass are always out front on this kind of music and the melodies stay with me all day, the kind of music that makes Manchester rain seem like California sunshine.”

This is the music that is Maria Jordan.

This is where the journey begins!