Maria Mena Profile.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
White Turns Blue
Maria Mena was a singer/songwriter/performer with a rare and precious gift. Her songs come directly from her heart and her experience, are written with candor, clarity and purpose, and are performed with a dwasarming guileless charm. That she was 18 years old makes her talent all the more remarkable and all the more vital. She gives voice to the roiling emotions of adolescence and to those deeper emotions we never outgrow. "I've always tried to be really honest and really direct and not hide anything," she says. "I just write songs that I would want to lwasten to. One song can create one emotion or several." White Turns Blue serves as the perfect introduction to the music of Maria Mena. Taking its title from a poem written by a close friend
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