Maria Minerva
Maria Minerva is Maria Juur (b. 1988) from Tallinn, Estonia. In Tallinn, Maria was freelancing as an art and music critic while studying art
history at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Together with her partner-in-crime Maria Arusoo, she was also one half of the artist duo mariaUNDmaria. It was during her 3rd year of university when she got into music making and quickly became the local lo-fi princess.
Maria's love affair with London began in 2009 when she was interning at The Wire Magazine. In 2010 she moved to London permanently to do her Masters at Goldsmiths College University London. In 2011, Minerva signed to the acclaimed Los Angeles based label Not Not Fun and released her debut cassette Tallinn At Dawn. Not Not Fun's dance-oriented daughter-label 100% Silk also put out her 12" Noble
Savage. On August 1st, Not Not Fun released her LP, the highly anticipated Cabaret Cixous followed in November by a second EP on 100% Silk entitled Sacred and Profane Love. Maria has been featured in the Guardian, the NME, Uncut, Vice Magazine, The Wire Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Vogue, Pitchfork and countless other publications.
In summer 2012 she will release The Integration album in collaboration with LA Vampires and her sophomore album on Not Not Fun. Maria will also appear in a special duo with Ital as part of the Unsound Labs program this year.
