MajO Leiva grew up in a family of musicians and artists in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. Since she was six, she began her guitar and singing studies with his father with whom she performed in several local stages.
Also, when she was eight years old she entered to the “Fine Arts Provincial Institute” to achieve the music degree specialized in classical music.
The main instrument was the piano but the conservatory included all the subjects in order to achieve the music degree.
In a private academy, MajO studied jazz-dance.
Every Sunday, she sang in the church choir. However, the most special event during the year was the annual show with the conservatory choir.
As a teenager, she took private piano classes to investigate popular music.
Afterwards, she moved to Buenos Aires city. There, she discover her passion to jazz music and studied with her singing teacher the work of Gershwin Ellington, a lot of real book and the great Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, among others.
Also, she met funk and disco musicians and that is why Soul and Hip-Hop became her favorite styles.
While she was living in Buenos Aires, she started composing her music and formed her solo band. She performed her shows in Córdoba, Santa Rosa, Rosario and the most popular vacation centre: Bariloche in Patagonia and the Atlantic coast (Pinamar, Mar del Plata, and Villa Gesell). In Uruguay, Punta Del Este and José Ignacio. In Brazil, Rio's jams jazz sessions.
During summer and winter holidays she worked with very prestigious argentinean artists and also for important brands such as Budweiser, Quilmes beer and Convers.
She collaborated with local Hip-Hop artists and she is willing to record her own work.
Finally, every Thursday during 2010, she worked in one of the most important parties in Buenos Aires, “Club 69” in Niceto Club.
