Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Label: Fancy Records, Fancy Booking
Management: Sarah Rich
Website: www.maralevi.com
Genre: Pop
Mara Levi (Mah' ruh Lee' vee) is the one-night stand Elvis Costello and Liz Phair never had—an amalgamation of bluegrass, hip hop, folk, pop, and jazz, trimmed in a faux hawk and studded with a diamond-sharp wit.
"Mara Levi has written a fun and sassy album whose hooks sunk into me immediately!"
Bitch
“Mara Levi's much anticipated new CD "We Listen To Fools" is an amazing musical journey. Pure Levi in that it shares, excites, and entertains. Oh yeah did I say entertains? Well worth the wait and an excellent showcase for that award winning talent we have come to love. Brilliant work, Bravo!”
Len Rogers - Stonewall Society
“In addition to teaching music and participating in Girls Rock! DC, Levi found time to drop her third CD, We Listen to Fools. Oh, and it rocks.”
Les Enfants Terribles
"Mara Levi's second solo album...finds the Washington, DC-based singer-songwriter back for another round of folksy, waltzy, and sometimes jazzy tunes built around a base of unapologetically open lesbian themes..."
Bitch Magazine
"...her multifaceted personality emerges through simple, honest lyrics. It is impossible to pin the album down to one stylistic genre..."
GO NYC Magazine
"The components that made “Life’s A Ball,” Mara Levi’s debut disc, so appealing are all present on her delightful sophomore effort “What Are You?” (maralevi.com). She has not abandoned her sense of playfulness nor have her songwriting and performance skills been dulled in any way..."
Chicago Free Press