Maryanne Ito has been played on NTS in shows including Aloha Got Soul Presents: Home Grown, featured first on 21 January 2020. Songs played include Friendly Exploitation, No Solution and DC2NYC2.

Maryanne Ito age 33, Samoan/Japanese from Honolulu Hawaii is a soul singer/songwriter/performer likened to Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. This independent artist combines a soulful-jazz style with R&B and Hip Hop.

She is a 2015 Na Hoku Hanohano Award Winner in Hawaii for Best R&B Album as well as a Vodafone Pacific Music Award Winner in New Zealand for the “Peoples Choice” Best International Artist.

Her debut album “Waking Up” reached No.4 in the…