Maye, who plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on July 28, 2025. Credit: Photo via mayeofficial/Facebook
The Obama stamp of approval is a powerful thing, just ask Maria Alejandra Osorio.

The 31-year-old Miami songwriter better known as Maye (stylized all-lowercase) appeared on the former president’s 2020 summer playlist alongside Leon Bridges, The Chicks, D’Angelo, Nina Simone and 48 others and has never looked back.

After spending the last half-decade release singles, Osorio—whose father penned a Latin Grammy-winning tune for Celia Cruz in 2014—finally arrives supporting Música Para Abrir El Cielo her debut full-length of bilingual indie-pop.

Tickets to see Maye play Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday, July 18 are still available and start at $20.

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This article appears in Jul 17-23, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...