Maya Jupiter

Melissha Martinez is a Mexican-born Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality. She was a member of hip-hop group, Foreign Heights, with MC Trey and DJ Nick Toth, which released a self-titled album in 2007. From 2004 to 2008, Jupiter hosted the national radio station, Triple J’s weekly Hip-Hop Show.

About Maya Jupiter in brief

Summary Maya JupiterMelissha Martinez is a Mexican-born Australian rapper, songwriter, MC and radio personality. She released her debut album, Today, in 2003. She was a member of hip-hop group, Foreign Heights, with MC Trey and DJ Nick Toth, which released a self-titled album in 2007. From 2004 to 2008, Jupiter hosted the national radio station, Triple J’s weekly Hip-Hop Show. Thereafter she pursued her solo career based in Los Angeles and released her second album, Maya Jupiter, in December 2010. Maya Jupiter was born on 21 December 1978 in La Paz, Mexico.

Her father is Mexican and her mother is Turkish. Her family moved to Melbourne, Victoria when Jupiter was one, then relocated to Sydney, when she was four, and then lived in Ashfield, South-western Sydney. She has an elder sister. Her parents provided a wide range of musical experience, \”At home, we always had different styles of music playing… y mum used to play classical music, traditional Turkish and pop music, but she was also into jazz and soul”