Maria Uzor’s music arrives like a pirate broadcast from a distant corner of the galaxy.

Her live shows exhibit the kind of tension that comes from a fearlessness and a deep desire for human connection. The music, part repetition, part reinvention, calls to never lose sight of the human inside the machine.

Born in Norwich, UK, to a Barbadian mother and Nigerian father, Maria grew up to the sounds of reggae and African music in the home, and punk, indie and hip-hop in the world outside. A black girl in a white environment, curious, observant, and with an increasing desire to carve out a landscape for herself in a world in which she had no reflection, her music bends and twists reality to shape a world in which she, and anyone else who want’s to join, can feel at home.

Maria began singing and playing guitar in her first band, garage punk 4-piece The Incidentals in the mid-noughties, before moving on to the psych-witch solo project Girl In A Thunderbolt in 2008. She then formed the post-punk dance duo Sink Ya Teeth in 2017 to critical acclaim.

She’s been producing and self-releasing under her own name since 2021, gaining support from Jamz Supernova, Amy Lame, BBC Introducing, and 6 Music.

Maria has released 3 EPs and one full-length album (‘Soft Cuts’ - 2023) to date.

She’s collaborated with Acid Klaus (Eccentronic Research Council / Moonlandingz), A Certain Ratio, Chk Chk Chk, and Baba Ali, and has remixed a number of artists including Rozi Plain, The Umlauts, and Floral Image.

Performing nationwide and in Europe, she’s opened for Young Fathers, Black Midi, Snapped Ankles and Benefits amongst others, and played stages at The Great Escape, Nox Orae, Grauzone, Green Man, Manchester Psych Fest, Mutations, and Focus Wales.

Maria Uzor’s new single ‘Don’t Touch Me’ is out now on Hey Buffalo Records.

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Fantasyland’, out on 3rd September 2026.