The ukulele-playing artist opens for AJR on Friday at Capital One Arena.
“You can’t really become a pop star without telling your parents, I guess,” Mxmtoon said in an interview. Mxmtoon did not mean to get famous. In her Southern California childhood home, where she grew up as the daughter of two teachers, internet safety was a priority. There were rules against unsupervised social media use and posting information about herself online.During high school, the now-24-year-old indie pop musician would wait until everyone in her house was asleep, usually about 10 p.m.
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 .
For an artist not originally meant to be online, she has made the internet her playground, with accounts on Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube. Oh, and she has published two graphic novels.
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