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Maye Osorio<\/a> couldn\u2019t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market\u2019s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a meeting that day in that building, and I saw a lady who was selling yoga mats, so I went up to her and she just started reading me como una vidente <\/em>(like a clairvoyant),\u201d Maye says. \u201cShe started telling me there were nine spirits in my house. I bought nine white candles, placed one in each room, and did a little ritual. Things started happening: a gust of wind came out of nowhere and opened a window. Something definitely left, and in that conversation, she said my mission in life was to \u2018abrirle el cielo a la gente\u2019 (<\/em>open the sky for people).\u201d<\/p>\n More from Spin:<\/p>\n Maye\u2019s long-awaited debut, whose Spanish title translates as \u201cMusic to Open the Sky,\u201d is an exercise in the ethereal. Born in Caracas and raised in Miami, the Venezuelan indie singer-songwriter established herself as a gentle emerging force in Latin alternative music with an effortlessly bilingual sound caught between dream pop and bolero, a Cuban genre similar to the torch song that revolves around bongos, acoustic guitar, and heart-wrenching lyrics full of yearning.<\/p>\n Her second official single, \u201cT\u00fa<\/a>\u201d (\u201cYou\u201d), released in 2019, is perhaps the perfect example: a slow-moving love song set to a sliding electric guitar with an echo of bongos and shaker grounded by Maye\u2019s voice, light as if it came on a gentle breeze. The song has rightfully entranced the world, racking up millions of streams. She\u2019s ventured into alternative rock (like debut song \u201cMy Love,\u201d<\/a> with its sweltering guitar-driven beat change in the chorus), and has even covered Bad Bunny and J Balvin\u2019s Oasis<\/em>-era sadboi post-breakup hit \u201cLA CANCI\u00d3N,\u201d<\/a> imbuing everything she sings on with a quiet fire.<\/p>\n M\u00fasica Para Abrir El Cielo<\/em> is an album about attempting to reconnect with yourself and the world through (and after) rupture, and sees Maye further sharpening her muted magic, expanding herself until she soars. Moving between playful and dramatic indie rock and slow-burning boleros,\u00a0 she gets a little less gentle without losing any of her gentleness, more brutally honest without sacrificing her tenderness. She started recording with producers Mick Coogan and Scott Dittrich near the end of 2022 with \u201cUna Medalla,\u201d a lively pop-rock track about the extreme sport of living without your lover\u2019s stare. The song opened the door to more sonic play in that direction, also enlisting long-time collaborators Fernando Belisario and Pat Howard.<\/p>\n