About Maya Salafia Maya Salafia is a Boston-based singer and songwriter who dabbles in the field of pop music. Maya has been a talented musician ever since she was a kid. She started playing the piano at age 5 and at 9 years she started writing pop music and at age 13 she released her debut EP titled “Trapped in a Daydream” which contained 6...

Before listening to a single note of Suris’ new album, “Pertinax”, I spent a few minutes just looking at the word. Pertinax. It has the distinct ring of a Stoic philosopher’s last defiant utterance or maybe a type of beetle known for its unusually stubborn shell. What a curious flag to fly for a collection of songs in an age of fleeting distraction. But...