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Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born December 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her compositions have been performed by Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Arve Tellefsen, Cikada and Vertavo string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, Ticom, crash Ensemble, Torben Snekkestad, SPUNK, Frode Haltli and POING among others. Portrait concerts with her music has been heard in Toronto and Vienna, and she has received many awards and commissions from throughout the world such as the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for composers below 30 years of...

Puumaja is a band making (mostly) slow, (always) melodic, (sometimes) depressive and (definitely) dramatic songs. Debut album "Meriselityksiä" is out May 27th 2009. Puumaja was born around 2001 or so, spread around Finland. Nowadays action concentrates on a city called Tampere. For more info etc: http://www.puumaja.com http://www.myspace.com/puumaja .

Maja Ivarsson, born 2 October, 1979 in Åhus, Skåne (in southern Sweden) is the lead singer with the Swedish New Wave band The Sounds. She plays the electric guitar (having taken it up age 14) and is a lyricist. She was featured in Cobra Starship's single and music video "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", for the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane. The widely advertised film gave an enormous amount of publicity to Maja and her band, especially in America. The Sounds are active on the touring circuit, including the United States. Their first tour was in the wake...

Mahamajama is pronounced mahAH-majAH-mah. It doesn't mean anything. Doopy doopy doopity poop. Poopity doopity doo. .