Earlier this year, during the summer, we posted 18-year-old R&B artist Maya Symone’s track, “Summertime Chi” which caught our eye because of the young Chicago native’s haltingly beautiful voice. Much like fellow young songstress Lorde, Symone touches on the things that young girls touch on: relationships, finding the right one, realizing they’re not. But she does it with a sense of understanding and ingenuity that call to mind someone much past her years.

Currently, Symone is hard at work in the studio in her hometown preparing her full-length debut project titled #MelodicEvolution, due out early next year. Take a minute out of your day to give Maya Symone a listen, you won’t be disappointed.

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