Sunshine Coast’s Rising Star Mayah Drops Powerful New Single “Rain War”

Local Sunshine Coast singer and prolific songwriter Mayah, brings us a vivid and vibrant rock sound with her new upcoming pop/rock release, Rain War.  Now, five years into her professional music career, Mayah has an active and highly engaged social media presence, receiving 1,000-40,000 organic views of her Facebook videos. She regularly plays gigs both solo and with her terrific rock band, and has hit over 600,000 collective streams on Spotify. A natural-born songwriter, Mayah is an intriguing, intuitive, free-spirited talent with new sounds and songs constantly echoing in her head. 

‘Mayah, is growing in leaps and bounds which is now evident in her latest release Rain War.  Haunting vocals and catchy hooks makes this a winner for this rising star’

– Dennis Dunstan, Frontrow Management

Rain War brings out the best of Mayah’s unique musical style with dynamic lead guitar and bass riffs melded deftly with rhythmic dance beats. This song epitomises the saying, “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” After all, it’s way more fun…

‘Mayah’s latest supernatural masterpiece ‘Rain War’ curiously blends primal rock with uptempo dance grooves. Her rich emotive lyrics are delivered effortlessly with mesmerising, creamy tones.’

​- Penny Brand, Editor – Yelo

Mayah explains; “Rain War is a celebration of our ability to stand strong in the face of the inevitable storms life brings us all from time to time. It’s essentially about not allowing others to bring you down, an anthem for peaceful warriors.”

Recorded, mixed and mastered with Bob Brierty at Bobos Productions Rain War is a crowd favourite at Mayah’s live shows on the Sunshine Coast and she is delighted to be able to share it through Gyrostream via all major online streaming platforms. The official lyric video will be released on YouTube on November 15th.

‘Mayah’s music is very inspiring, she has a great attitude that will take her a long way in the music industry. Mayah is very easy to work with and has an amazing family supporting her music dreams. I’m really looking forward to watching Mayah progress and I wish her all the success.’

– Peter (Yoda) Stevens, Yodaz Management

Mayah’s previous three releases, Indecisive, Traffic Light, and Loved & Lost, have amassed over 220,000 views on her YouTube channel to date. Traffic Light is a finalist in the 2024 Australian Songwriter’s Association Competition and was a semi-finalist in the 2024 International Songwriting Competition.

Mayah performs her acoustic guitar three-hour solo show around Southeast Queensland. She performed with her band at Live & Local Twelve-4-Twelve mini-fest in September 2024 at Venue 114, the Yandina Street Fair in August 2023, Nurture Festival in May 2022 and 2023, Hostile Fest at Norton Music Factory in February 2023, The Paddo Tavern, Brisbane as support for British India in November 2022, The Caloundra Music Festival in September 2021 & 2022, The Pre Gympie Music Muster in August 2022, the opening act for the Fabulous Caprettos featuring Daryl Braithwaite, Russell Morris, Jack Jones and Rai Thistlethwayte at Nightquarter in 2022, one of the main acts at Nurture Festival 2023, and the. Check Mayah’s socials for upcoming gigs.