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MARIS is a Los Angeles–based, Montana-born singer/songwriter, emerging as “pop music’s next Mega Star” [Los Angeles Times]. A playful DIY ethos animates her songs, social content, and live shows. Blending heartland rock with glam-pop bombast, MARIS crafts arena-sized, sugar-rush choruses built around elastic vocals and diaristic songwriting.
Her breakout collaboration with Caroline Kingsbury, “Give Me A Sign,” earned praise from PAPER as “anxious and electric,” landed on Spotify’s Best Pop Songs of 2025, and helped fuel her first sold-out headline show at DC9. FLOODcalls “Body Is On Fire” a “cathartic” kickoff to her “vibrant” new phase.
MARIS has performed at Boston Calling alongside Ed Sheeran, Chappell Roan, and Reneé Rapp; placed #4 on Stereogum’s Top Pop Songs of 2025 with “SUPER F★CKING MEGAST★R”; and been included in Spotify’s Fresh Finds Class three times. Elton John featured “Mary + I” on his Rocket Hour radio show, comparing MARIS to both Lady Gaga and Freddie Mercury.
Best experienced live, MARIS ensures audiences feel free to be their happiest, truest selves. She told the Los Angeles Times, “At my show, you’re gonna jump. You’re gonna dance. You’re gonna be involved, whether or not you want to.” She has toured nationally with The Wrecks, Maude Latour, A R I Z O N A, Anna of the North, and Caroline Kingsbury.
She has also been featured in Rolling Stone, LADYGUNN, Ones to Watch, Under the Radar, and Wonderland, and launched her latest single, “Body Is On Fire,” with a Vevo DSCVR performance.
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Born and raised in rural Maine, Stancioff has emerged as a gifted writer with a cinematic eye for richly detailed, emotionally-charged character studies. She grew up learning traditional Bulgarian music from her paternal grandfather’s side of the family and reveled in singing American folk and roots tunes with her friends. After years of touring and recording with her previous indie folk band, Dyado, and a dramatic stint in LA in 2020 that inspired many songs and big move back to Maine, she felt compelled to release music under her own name. Her debut album "When We Were Looking" was released in April 2024 with Yep Roc Records. She has now toured it extensively, opening for renown bands such as Darlingside, Blitzen Trapper, Pokey Lafarge and more, and is in the works of recording her second album.