Mike Maven

Take the sensual and emotive vocals of R&B crooners like Robin Thicke and combine it with the grit and groove of Bill Withers. Take the modern sound of Maroon 5 and add a little classic Hip Hop. Take the idealist in John Mayer and mesh him with the edge in John Legend. Add the "Maven" in Kanye West, and mix him with Prince. When you have done these things, you will have created the blueprint for the sounds and style of Mike Maven, whose goal is to take modern American music and move it forward.


Mike Maven is a singer-songwriter, bandleader, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with a passion for life and musical knowledge and diversity. Alluding to inspirations that span cultures and decades and working them into a modern popular structure is what drives Maven to create new music. For Mike Maven, being multi-faceted in both personality and approach is a central philosophy, and this shines through in his genre bending blend of styles.


Recently, Mike Maven had a front page feature on Okayplayer.com for his acoustic cover recording of Kanye West's "Amazing." The feature was received with incredible popularity, and the song was posted on numerous other music blogs across the web. With home bases in Austin, New England, New York, and the Midwest, Mike Maven has developing fan bases in the most unexpected places with the most diverse group of fans. In the last two years, Mike Maven has opened for Hanson, Stephen Kellogg, The Wood Brothers, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Zox, and the legendary Sugar Hill Gang. The debut album was released in may of 2006 and has sold over 1000 physical copies nationally in the US and Japan and featured emerging artists that have since made careers of their own. His most recent release, Rules In Love, has attracted the attention of Sid Bernstein, Joe Fletcher Presents, E! Television, and NACA.