"It felt like I had a space outside of school, or my friends or my family, that was entirely my own and entirely up to me to curate. I don't know if I felt like I had many places like that when I was a kid, so it felt really important when I found it as a teenager," Mxmtoon said.
After Mxmtoon revealed in late high school that she had over 10,000 SoundCloud followers and articles were being written about her, the first thing her mom asked was whether the people online knew her last name. They did not, and she still likes to keep her surname under wraps - preferring to go by just Maia.
In the years since that admission about her late-night recording sessions, Mxmtoon has released two studio albums (with a third on the way). And on Friday, she'll perform for an audience in the tens of thousands as she opens for sibling pop trio AJR at Capital One Arena.
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