Marya Roxx
Maarja Kivi - Meriste ( born January 18, 1986 in Tallinn) is an Estonian singer and bassist. Became internationally known Kivi from November 2003 as lead singer and bassist of the pop-rock girl group Vanilla Ninja. Since 2005 she has been active as a solo artist, since December 2007, under the stage name Marya Roxx.
- 3.1 studio album
- 3.2 Singles
2002: Career beginning
Maarja began her musical career with three appearances at the Estonian Singing Competition ETV - Laulukarussell, in which she won in her age group in the years 1993, 1994 and 1998. On January 26, 2002, she took on Eurolaul 2002, the Estonian preliminaries for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2002 part. With the song A Dream she finished in seventh place. So the manager Peep Veedla became aware of them. He should put together a girl group for the record company TopTen. In the summer of 2002, Maarja frontwoman of Vanilla Ninja.
On the first two albums of the band, Vanilla Ninja Traces of Sadness and, Maarja was heard in almost all songs as lead singer. After initial successes in their home country, they celebrated with the band from the end of 2003, especially in the German-speaking considerable success.
2004: Solo projects
In mid-June 2004, she left the band at the peak of success. Reason for its withdrawal was a baby she was expecting from her husband and tour manager Renée Meriste. After the birth of her daughter Maarja launched in late 2005 her solo career. Together with David Brandes, former producer of Vanilla Ninja, she recorded her debut single Could You. On September 1, followed by their second single Shine It On, with whom she had mediocre chart positions.
After the great success failed to materialize, she separated from Icezone Music. In the summer and fall of 2007, they took with Kevin " The Cave" Shirley and Paul Crook (guitar), Scott Metaxas (bass ) and Brian Tichy (drums) in Malibu / CA (USA), the debut album Payback Time on. It was released on 5 November 2008 in Europe and in the United States on November 8. Your stage name they changed in December 2007 by " Maarja " in " Marya Roxx " because Maarja - Liis Ilus was already known as Maarja. On 25 January 2008, the premiere of the single was 21? , Under a new name and management, which was played on a Luxembourg radio station for the first time. The German public Marya turned in the summer of 2009 prior to the opening act of the singer LaFee. On 7 November 2009 she started her UK tour, where she performed in various clubs in the United Kingdoms. 2010 was Marya Roxx concerts in Prague, Vienna and in Switzerland as the opening act of Skindred.
Restart
Since 2011, Kivi lives in Los Angeles. 11 September 2011 published Kivi the Single Blinded. This is her first public appearance after the release of "21" in 2008. However, even this single did not place in the charts. On November 9, they released the song Tie Your Mother Down as a download single. She is also a music teacher in Estonia. Kivi has written a new song to be released in January of 2012.
Private
Since October 2004 she has been married to Renee Meriste, the former manager of Vanilla Ninja. In September 2004 their daughter was born.