The Madrid-born, Boston-raised singer-songwriter performs with a rare kind of intimacy — weaving American songwriting, Afro-Cuban rhythm, flamenco, and jazz into something that feels less like a genre and more like a conversation between cultures. In a duo setting, every note has space to breathe. You'll hear it all: the architecture of the chords, the grain of the voice, the story inside the song.

His acclaimed album Back Then, produced by Javier Limón and featuring legendary pianist Chucho Valdés and Grammy-nominated vocalist Daymé Arocena, is the recorded version of what Maza does best. Live, in a room this size, it lands differently. The poetry is closer. The rhythm finds you.

If you've never seen him before, this is the right introduction. If you have, you already know.