The Songbird

Maria “The Lovey Dovey SONGBIRD” Remos is one of Hawaii’s up and coming stars exercising her talents in Hawaii’s Jazz, Hip-hop, Electronic, Reggae, and Downtempo music industries. As a graduate of Hawaii’s live jazz seen, open mic’s, and hip hop cyphers Maria has been on stage performing regularly for over 5 years and did her first professional singing gig at the age of 18 at Indigo’s with the Groove Improv Artists.Maria has performed in the Hip Hop band Microscopic Syllables that opened for Mos Def at Pipeline Café. Maria earned and opening slot for Ozomatli with Quadraphonics the Aloha Tower. Maria has also done numerous performances in Hawaii, island wide, at the Princeville, (Kauai) Hano Hano Room, Living Room, Nextdoor, Lotus, Indigo, Jazz Minds, Oceans, Aloha Tower, 39 hotel, and Ong King(Oahu) , Mainland US with 41Funk, and Psycho Kinetics at the Elbow Room in San Francisco, and in Europe, seen in, Germany in Berlin, Freiberg, and Hoppetosse, and was fortunate to recorded in London with Wrong Recordings with Asad Risvi.A band started with David Mergens, Intricate Mediums then called Nu Swing Project played three to four days weekly all over Honolulu with a smooth rhodes and jazz sound with major influence by James Yancy, Pete Rock, and Stevie Wonder to name a few, were together for 2 years and shaped a lot of the Songbirds sound.Maria enjoys working both on stage and behind the scenes in production rooms. Her production credits include recording with one of Dr Dre’s producers Ralph, Maria also has been featured on many tracks for Hawaii’s brightest performers in Hip-hop, Electronic, Dancehall, Jazz, and Pop Music and has a well balanced variety of recordings featuring her singing in many genre’s and styles. Her studio’s and engineering credits include :Free Sound, Danny-1, Fort Union Studios with Tempo Valley, Deshannon Higa at Secret Studios, and with MC NME at Emerald Studios, Sunido Sucio(As I Would Say), Trinity Entertainment groups studio with LAS, and with Young Fiyah.Maria considers herself a bodysurfer, a dancer for the love, a runner, and a career singer/ songwriter has played with Deshannon Higa’s Groove Improv Artists (G.I.A.)at the Hano Hano Room and Lotus, Reggae Soundsystem Pacific Sound Outernational, and with the Hip Hop/Reggae Collaborative the Direct Descendants both at the Living Room.Now living in the San Francisco she has been singing with DJ Stepwise, Green B, Dookie, Now Time sound while doing live styles too sitting in with the Jazz Mafia and Panthelion.