member profiles

Lyo Summers is a multidisciplinary artist with training in the visual, musical, and performing arts. Lyo creates works intended to positively affect important issues, such as the environment, poverty, and mental health resources in rural areas.

MAHA Rocks is a Ukrainian songwriter, rock singer, guitarist, recording artist and a voting member of the Recording Academy (the GRAMMYs(R)). Growing up in artistic family, she absorbed a love for all genres of music, but no genre was in her face as much as rock and blues. MaHA Rocks eventually found she could not escape from being obsessed with the electric guitar sound, and she quickly developed strong guitar skills.

MASA (a.k.a. Masanori Takumi , born 14 November 1978) is an award-winning Japanese musician, composer, songwriter, and producer. Most of his work has been done in Japan, but he has also won acclaim for his work internationally. Notably, he received Grammy® nominations for his work with SLY & ROBBIE in 2014 and 2015. In Asia, he has produced hits for many majors artists such as EXILE, AAA, KARA, FT ISLAND, Park Yong Ha,ViViD,Alice Nine and DIR EN GREY among others. His top album sold over 2 million copies, and his work on AAA's album "Call" won the Excellence Album Award at The 53rd Japan Record Awards.

Genre is an illusion, and M.B. is proof…having played with artists as diverse as the LA Philharmonic and The National Symphony to Beck, Michael Buble, The Doobie Brothers, Guns and Roses, Green Day, Josh Groban, and many more. M.B. Gordy’s groove is ubiquitous, having played on over 300 top box office films, including Frozen, X-Men series, and Harry Potter series, to name a few. His current collaboration with the Grammy® winning group OPIUM MOON reveals an inner mystic whose ancient groove is simultaneously hypnotic and seductive.

MC Lars is the creator of post-punk laptop rap and lit-hop, which he has extended and powered into a fusion of rap, punk, rock, ska, pop and other genres. He is post-modern - combining his music with powerful and present lyrics, and packing concert venues. He speaks to and for people of all ages, lifestyles, and perspectives, and is a story-teller, covering love, life, loss, confusion, and hope. He tours in the US, the UK and the rest of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.