All lyrics written and performed by Maria Isa (M.I. Perez/BMI)
Production by Bobby Raps and Andrew Bergen
Off the upcoming Maria Isa album Valley of the Dolls
www.misotarico.com
www.mariaisa.bandcamp.com


Sabotage

MARIA ISA'S VALLEY OF THE DOLLS 

Maria Isa's music has received much critical acclaim using her talent to create social change and labeling her as a woman proud of her Latina heritage. Her recent solo project Valley of the Dolls includes production led by Andrew Bergen and Bobby Raps where Isa expresses a mature sound of Latin Soul twisting R&B, Pop, heavy percussion and hip-hop lyricism. The 10 tracked album kick's off with the introduction Maruca (produced by Dan Comerchero) takes you on a joyride through a journey of love, dedication, and crossroads of activism with songs like Sabotage, Steve Jobs, Down For Whateva, Dulce along with the club hit Bobby Canavale produced by Doug Louiselle of the WHALE/S. 

Performances on the album include Dante Pedro, Muja Messiah and Maria's mother human rights activist Elsa Vega-Perez. 
Musician CREDITS presents the groove of Camilo Molina (LP21, Eddie Palmieri Orchestra), Truthmaze, Trevor Peterson (Tickle Torture), Charles Miles, Drew Lerdal, Bomba Umoya and Onayemi. 

Preview the project and her latest videos for Sabotage and Maruca at www.misotarico.com 

Palito De Ron

Bobby Canavale

Steve Jobs

Maruca

Maria Isa arranged her own screenplay to Little Dragon's "Twice," on her last trip to Detroit which inspired lyrics to her latest release You Don't Know (What I've Been Going Through).  
Isa is currently getting ready to release her mixtape "Dragon Lady," while currently playwriting in both the Twin Cities and New York City.  This summer Isa is also producing "El Movimiento Mix" a radio program promoting Latino arts, culture and community agendas and finalizing Villa Rosa's "LeMuria" due out this August.  

Isa makes her acting debut as Angie Garcia in Boricua Film's "Strike One," screening at this years 2015 Cannes Films Festival and was recently nominated for "Best Breakthrough Female Performance" at the Twin Cities Film Festival. 

"I am grateful for the opportunities I've been able to work for and experience so far in my career. For the past two years I have been focused strongly on writing, producing, reflecting and working closely with artists passionate towards bridging the arts, media and social justice as a tool to educate, reflect and continuously build motivational monuments internationally."

"I'm just a Boricua woman from Minnesota, doing what I was born to do...be human, live, dream, learn, love, defend, heal and create positively."  -Maria Isa

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ARTWORK BY : 
Dimples The Designer (dimplesthedesigner@gmail.com)


Lyrics written by Maria Isa (M.I.Perez/BMI)


Why must we judge?


Is it all a test
She tries to do her best
last sip from the bottle
on her last cigarette
her man shot down
on her front steps
on his way to cash a check
caught a bullet to the chest
by the youngin' down the street
trying to feed his shorty
dropped out at 15
when he seen his Daddy od
car jacked a chevy
now he feels like an OG
numbing all his pain drinkinng down the codeine 
    
You don't know what i've been going thru


Sometimes I just gotta go break and get away
I can only do with what's promised for today
In this world we don't know what's coming next
I can forgive but never forget 


They found a tumor in her breast
She took a deep breath
News was hard to swallow
Dr.'s note was on her  desk
her head hanging down
face in her hands
thinking bout all her plans
and how'd she tell her man
who just bought a ring
thinking bout kids 
cancers growing fast
Her life won't last
praying for her last days
saying it's God's plan
Sitting here thinking i just don't understand          


You don't know what i've been going thru


Sometimes I just gotta go break and get away
I can only do with what's promised for today
In this world we don't know what's coming next
I can forgive but never forget 



You Don't Know (What I've Been Going Through)

Maria Isa honors B-Girl Be's 10th year reunion with her remix to MC LYTE's 1989 hit Cha,Cha,Cha.  DRAGON LADY MIXTAPE COMING SOON!!!


LYRICS BY Maria Isa (M.I.Perez/SotaRico)

Moochie Mari Mar, Maruca cha cha cha
Middle Eastern Poppas Love me like i'm baklava
Bodega dreams singing songs over Bomba Plena
Artist like De La vega be saying "MIRA go Nena"
When i'm home I make em wonder "how you living?"
always ahead of the game I dominate the mission, congregating powers,Sephora lipsticks got these rappers on my clique feeling higher than the freedom tower
Frida Kahlo at the gallery, Amy Winehouse singing Valerie
this artist life, my salary, these chumps out here trying to battle me?
I pop my tities out tell'm "sip it! y'all become my casualties"
I'm at the garden with the lover, bette milder with her rose
phat kush rillo mujer dragon
kill my soliders? We can go one on one
shoot alone like my star Borinquen Libre cabron!


Dj Tony Trouble y La Isa will smoke you out with that leaf yah!
leave ya mouth feel like that cotton
luke skywalker blue dreams yah!
make you a cannabis pheene yah!
Trinidadian Jews, Afro Puerto Ricans  Hebrew last names
Panamanian gold chains
No juega con los santos dis shit no game
Im a St. Paul saint Isa at the Cinco Parade
28 my city turned me into a legend
eddie palmieri blessed me with a rhymebook at 7
18 i went pro in the Sota like Kevin
and my flow 87 coco, drop rhymes bricks like Tetris
Isa, the lover, the fighter,the light, fire mistress, pussy the wettest, bacalao on the mic on these bitch dicks slipping
swerving adoring my style
an excursion, middle passage reversing, Young Lord Child


Isa-Cha-Cha-Cha

Maria Isa releases Can't Keep Up featuring TEK.
Produced by HANS.

Get ready to step to this 90s r&b vibe mix heated up with Maria Isa's sizzlin' vocals as she features fellow St. Paul dominant rapper TEK . 

    "It's a fun jam in which I collaborated with Minneapolis songwriter Hap and rapper/producer Tek.  Tek's been a homie since I was about 12 years old and his creativity in the lab inspired a lot of my writing and melodies on my last album Valley of the Dolls. I wanted Can't Keep Up to reflect a sweet date night kickin' it.  I wanted it to feel like the era of my teen years going to the State Fair on the bus with all your friends, and that one guy you have a crush on winning you giant stuffed animals, buying you flowers after the fireworks and letting you rock his fitted; In the Sota, those nights after the fair turned into a mixed dance party in someone's garage or basement. Can't Keep Up is strait rollerskating to the r&b lounge music."

Catch Isa's Dragon Lady Mixtape late summer/early fall.

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IG: mariaisasotarico
#DragonLady
#SotaRico

Maria Isa - Cant Keep Up feat. Tek

Maria Isa remixes Beyonce's "Formation" with a SotaRican twist on "La Formacion Boricua."  Isa showcases why she's known as the Lolita Lebron of MCs.  Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre and FREE OSCAR! 

La Formacion Boricua (Formation Remix)

Chicago Dj Wrek creates a house track of Maria Isa's latest track LA FORMACION BORICUA (Beyonce Formation Remix) as part of her Dragon Lady Mixtape.  Dj Wrek and Maria Isa first collaborated in 2005 after they met at the Humboldt Park Paseo Boricua's Bandera Bandera Festival in the heart of Chicago's Puerto Rican Community.  

#1starNot51 is a new hashtage created to represent the Millennials who stand in solidarity for Puerto Rican Independence.   

DJ Wrek & Maria Isa - La Formacion Boricua Chicago House Mix

Maria Isa is the DRAGON LADY releases GET IT ON SIGHT produced by Odiño.

DRAGON LADY mixtape drops on 5/5/2016 




Get It On Sight (Maria Isa Ft. Gym)

Maria Isa
Born in Minnesota to NuyoRican parents (New York-Puerto Ricans), Maria Isa began her arts education at El Arco Iris Center for the Arts in 1992, and quickly progressed from the role of student to the role of singer, songwriter, emcee, instructor and performing artist.  Her 2007 M.I. Split Personalities and 2009 release of Street Politics, has received much critical acclaim using her talent to create social change and labeling her as a woman proud of her heritage. Isa acted in the indie film Strike One in Hollywood with Danny Treo; and her recent solo project Valley of the Dolls has been creating a buzz with the release of her latest singles and videos for Sabotage and Maruca.   
In 2002 she co-founded the dance group, Raices, whose mission is to conserve ancestral Puerto Rican heritage through folkloric music and dance.  In addition, Maria organizes various social events – walkathons, fundraisers and more to raise money and public awareness for juvenile diabetes. 
She has been nominated for a Minnesota Music “Best Hip-Hop Artist” Award, and was recognized as a 2010 Rising Star by the National Hispaña Leadership Institute for her outstanding work with Youthrive on behalf of working and educating incarcerated youth throughout the Twin Cities. She has also been honored for her involvement with the international organization Peace Jam on behalf of hosting several Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
She has received the Best Urban Artist award from La Raza Radio and Univision Channel 13, a Certificate of Appreciation from the Governor of Minnesota for her outstanding songwriting and contributions to the Latino Community, CNN's Top Latinos in Social Networking and the David Laffyette Award for her dedication towards the peace movement through the arts.  She has headlined the International Bazaar stage at the Minnesota State Fair, received grand reviews for her role as Mimi in the Jonathan Larsen musical “Rent” at the Guthrie Lab Theatre and dominated the BMI Publishing Latin Alternative Music Conference showcase. 
After releasing her third solo project “Sip-It” with production by world known hip-hop engineer extraordinaire Eddie Sancho in 2011, Isa introduced herself as the other half of the political satire hip-hop duo group Villa Rosa with Muja Messiah (God Kissed It, The Devil Missed It), whom have been praised by 2DopeBoys.com and World Latin Hip Hop for the critically acclaimed album Blue Diamond Island and EP titled Exotic Paraphernalia. Following these releases Maria made waves marketing activism and the arts through social networking trends which gained her recognition on CNN news as one of the nation’s top Latina indie-artist.  
Her music has been featured on ABC’s The B in APT 23, Fast and The Furious video game (2013), MTV’s Punk’d, The Paulie D Project, JWow and Snooki, E’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Oxy’s Bad Girls Club  and many more national network programming. Isa also presented and performed the Target "Mis Sazones" commercial for Latino Radio along with recording vocals for the "BudLight Twist Cool" commercial and Taco John's jingle.  Maria’s voice has reached audiences around the world, including Asia, the United Kingdom, Latin America, the United States and Puerto Rico. 
In 2013 she released The Latina Ritual Project featuring her collaborations and music with Malamanya’s Adriana Rimpel, Afro-Cuban artist Viviana Pintado and Bomba group Tambores Calientes of Loiza, Puerto Rico.  The Latina Ritual Project was executively produced by Maria Isa though the Jerome Foundation's 416 Club Commisions presented by the Cedar Cultural Center.  
Isa also released an album under In the Groove Records titled Latinization with producer Young Mennace, giving her the opportunity to perform at the 2013 X Games in Los Angeles' Staples Center as part of the Ford Fiesta Stage.
Maria Isa has shared stages, showcased and performed alongside Slick Rick, Plena Libre, The Roots, Atmosphere, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Dead Prez, Los Pleneros de La 21, Digable Planets, Ana Tijoux, Brother Ali, Julio Voltio, Tego Calderon, Magos Herrera, Maria De Bargos, La India, Popmaster Fabel, The Wu-tang Clan, Styles P, Chingo Bling, Bone Thugs in Harmony, Plena Libre, AfriCaribe, Bomba Esterio, Rokafela, Medusa, The Coup, Pam the Funktress, Tato Brujo, Tambores Calientes, Lemon, Tiempo Libre, La Bruja, Habana Harlem, Miguel Alegrin, Alice Russel, Bomba Esterio, Roxanne Shante, Semisonic and Paracumbe, to name a few.
After 6 successful showcases at this years 2014 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, Maria Isa is now set to launch her own show IsaVison off Tu Vision Canal.com.
Be sure to follow Maria Isa on twitter @mariaisa and read her VOICES blog published by the Star Tribune.
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