Meet Maritta Kachele

Today we’d like to introduce you to Maritta Kachele.

Maritta, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Music and writing have always been a part of my life from a young age, it has carried me through the roughest moments, held me in my most vulnerable state, embraced me with peace in the midnight hour and presented me with joy when I could have been filled with hate. It is the hand that heals and helps me to stand.

I started singing at my family’s church around the age of five. During these moments I loved the feeling of singing songs that other people could connect to. I hail from a family with two very different cultural backgrounds. One was southern gospel and blues and the other was reggae. I loved the music that would play throughout the house and the way it made you feel on the inside, now that’s great music. My pathway to music and writing was not straight forward and came with many turns, rejections, and roundabouts.

This included relationships that would interfere and impact the timing and process of my music journey. I was no longer willing to play the victim in anyone’s plans and that meant I had to do something about it. I could no longer remain in a marriage that was mentally and emotionally abusive. I had already before my second marriage endured nine years of physical abuse as a teenager and young wife. I had learned so well how to hide the pain with melodies and the disappointments with silence. I had lost my voice, my identity.

However, after getting out of this last marriage, losing everything and hitting rock bottom. I was able to begin the process of getting to know me. Prior I had stopped singing completely and walked away from everything that made me… ME and that was internally taking my life away. I had to break the cycle of codependency… because it was time for Maritta to find herself, love herself, and learn what healthy relationships look like.

I know I have my unique style and sound and I am just getting started. Oftentimes, people tell me that my voice is calming and they can just relax and let the music play. This puts a smile on my heart. After all, I desire to share my voice and my experiences because I know that I am not the only one who has had these experiences. I want my fans, my tribe, my listeners to connect to some part, if not all of the song and understand that its never too late to have the courage to forgive, to heal, to love yourself, speak your truth and when the time is right, to love again. That is where the EP title Beauty Within Chaos and the songs originated from.

Has it been a smooth road?
No, it definitely wasn’t a smooth road. I have pursued my singing career before as a young adult and that was interrupted when my high school sweetheart and husband committed suicide due to exacerbated mental illness and that left me as a widow at the age of 25 and a single mother. I decided to put music on hold.

However, once I remarried and had more children I wanted to support my husband in getting his degree so I put pursuing my music full-time on hold. I did also run into some people in the industry at the time that was in the gospel and contemporary alternative realm who told me basically that my lyrics and sound was not a good fit, that was disheartening. Their comments and words at the time only provided me another reason to justify why I had stopped singing.

We’d love to hear more about your work.
I am a singer-songwriter, poet, film producer and soon to be an author. I currently have an EP titled, “Beauty Within Chaos” on all music platforms and a film that I co-produced titled, “LiMe”, which is currently on the festival circuit and has been selected for 10 festivals and will be released for the public at the end of March.

I am the proudest of not allowing other people, challenges or rejections to keep me from pursuing my dreams and doing what I love to do. There is only one Maritta Kachele and what I bring to the table is what sets me apart… I am my own rendition and I cannot be duplicated, maybe imitated… I would hope that my song choices, my lyrics, my music, my writings would be clear in their tone and essence and that those that partake in them would without a doubt know that this is Maritta Kachele.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
I believe that Phoenix is a great place for growing a business. Its location allows me to be close to larger cities such as Los Angeles. If someone was just starting out in the music industry… I would have to say financially, Phoenix would be the best place to start if they are interested in being close to California.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.marittakachele.com
• Email: info@marittakachele.com
• Instagram: @marittakachele
• Facebook: @marittakachele1
• Other: reverbnation.com/marittakachele

Image Credit:
Arrantes Stephen

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