BEAUTY AND THE BEAT
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Three Times a Lady: Triple Threat Maiysha
A model, a singer and a scholar walk into a bar ¦ Might sound like a joke, but in fact it’s one serious triple threat”Brooklyn’s Maiysha. The singer is a graduate of the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied vocal performance and creative writing. She puts both disciplines to good use in her post-collegiate life, crafting contemporary R&B/soul with lyrical bite. A self-confessed devotee of Donna Summer and Chaka Khan, Maiysha shows she can smolder with the best of them with the seductive You Don’t Know. Her torchy delivery of lines like I’m not trying to complicate you sets the R&B groove on low heat. Reconcile that with the powerhouse chorus of Wanna Be, a fierce rocker that recalls En Vogue’s Free Your Mind. Against grinding guitars funked up with a wah-wah pedal, the singer takes herself to task, saying I’m young enough to have a lot to learn / I’m old enough to know better.” Good-looking, talented and wise. If we didn’t like her, we’d hate her.
