Maritri
Few singers can portray stories of love, life and loss with heart-rending accuracy like Maritri Garrett. Her poignant, bittersweet lyrics tell “grown folks’ stories” in a heart-rending way, capable of rocking you to your very core. With such a rare, innate talent, Maritri was destined to share her ability with the world.
Maritri has a natural gift for music, learning instruments with an ease that is impossible to describe and equally impossible to forget. As a two-year-old in Southern California, she developed her love of music when she began playing piano under the loving, watchful eyes of her parents. Right away, it became clear that she was a born musician. Only a few years after, Maritri taught herself to play guitar, and it seemed only moments later that she was performing on stage. In 2002, Maritri made her classical piano debut at Steinway Hall in New York. In the summer of 2005, she picked up the cello, and after only six short months, she made her debut as a cellist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As a result of that debut, she was commissioned alongside cellist Shana Tucker to compose music for two ballets at the Washington Ballet under the direction of Mary Day, at the Kennedy Center, and at the Witts Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
V. Jeffrey Smith
David Pilgrim