{"id":5210,"date":"2021-11-18T05:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2025-10-11T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T04:58:08","slug":"bronx-native-stormi-maya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Native, Stormi Maya"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Stormi Maya, a woman from Bronx, New York, can do it all. A hip-hop artist who also acts, directs, writes, organizes events, there\u2019s no challenge she won\u2019t rise to. \u201cBasically, I\u2019m a business person,\u201d she says. Maya describes herself as someone who likes \u201cdabbling in everything.\u201d She says that she does \u201canything that brings in money, any type of revenue.\u201d Maya also describes herself as a \u201clover of life and bringing people together,\u201d hence why she is always organizing things like shoots and videos.\"\"<\/a>
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Currently, Maya lives in Montreal, Canada, where she has been working on projects since before quarantine. She is staying in Montreal because she knows that if she leaves, she won\u2019t be able to come back. Luckily, Maya has a lot of opportunities and people up in Canada.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maya has experience in directing not only film (such as music videos and short films), but also live theatre. Her big goal, which she says feels like a big accomplishment, is to finish a feature film. Even if she isn\u2019t directing; she wants to just \u201cstart making movies.\u201d Unfortunately, she had a bad experience in the movie industry a few years ago with a director who seemed great at first but decided he didn\u2019t want to finish the film. Maya, who had been producing and acting for this movie, wasn\u2019t happy with the product. It became important to her to finish it on her own, as she didn\u2019t have complete control.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maya directed, screen wrote, and produced a hip-hop feature film called Shark. It features a cast of people from Virginia, Miami, Atlanta, New York, and Montreal, including herself. The film is about eighty minutes long and has elements of both drama and comedy, while also being a hip-hop movie. Maya says post-production was a big deal for her because of how much she had to go through to be able to get to the point where she is finishing a film, which included a lot of editing. While she had professionals come in, all of the initial editing and special effects were done by her. \u201cSo, I did like basically everything,\u201d she says.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With all her talents, Maya says that she\u2019s going more into music. She has no plans to abandon her work in directing, producing, and acting, \u201cbut music\u2019s going to most likely be about priority.\u201d Maya feels that music is empowering because she has control; she gets to \u201ccontrol what I\u2019m putting out. I get to control my voice.\u201d When acting, she\u2019s putting on a face and being someone else. With music, it\u2019s her voice.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maya has been doing music since she was a teenager, maybe even before, but wasn\u2019t pursuing it at first. She took some music classes in high school, seeing it as more of a hobby. It wasn\u2019t until 2018 that she began learning how to be a music artist professionally; two years later, she feels like she\u2019s \u201cdone a lot of great things in that small amount of time.\u201d Her current favorite song that she\u2019s released is Black Man Magic, which she said she was \u201creally pushing that song a lot.\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Of course, Maya doesn\u2019t just make music- she listens to it, too. She mostly listens to hip-hop and old-school rap music, as well as older music- rock and metal came to mind. Artists like Queen Latifa and Missy Elliot are not only people Maya likes to listen to, she also takes inspiration from them; for Maya, it\u2019s all about the vibes. Specifically, when you listen to a song and feel like you want to dance.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The person who has had the biggest impact on Maya\u2019s life is her grandmother. Her grandmother raised her and taught her values of life, how to take care of herself, and how to proudly present herself. Her grandmother is still out there \u201cdoing what she has to do\u2026 running around and traveling and living her life.\u201d
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maya spent more time than she knows being told \u201cyou can\u2019t.\u201d She was always told she could never be an actress, or a model, or anything. Today, Maya has proved the haters wrong. A successful singer, actress, director, and producer, Maya has proved that you can be more than anyone says you can be.<\/p>\r\n

Stormi can be reached on IG: @stormimaya or her website: www.stormihub.com\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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