Maria talks us through her journey, from growing up black in Norwich, through the bands The Incidentals, Girl In A Thunderbolt and Sink Ya Teeth, to her recent, critically acclaimed solo album Soft Cuts, which "twists and mutates it’s way through it’s influences, chewing up the sum of it’s parts and spitting out a groove-laden mash-up that nods to both 90s rave culture and Afro-futurism".