SUNDAY SESSIONS featuring ALEX MAHER

All music is magic. It’s easy to become numb to it, but every so often that universal truth, that magic, can snap into focus. Watching Alex Maher build an entire song before your very eyes will do that to you. First a beat, then a groove. Synths, keys and guitar. He sings the words and melodies he wrote – or someone else wrote –  and then he blows the house down with his alto sax. And then he does it again, and again and again. Nothing prerecorded, all live. In July of 2021, he hit No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart as a featured artist on Vandelux’s “Matter of Time”, which has over 83 million plays on Spotify. With his original compositions, Maher creates a real venn diagram of modern pop sounds – R&B, electronic, jazz and hip-hop – but lyrically, they feature the kind of singer-songwriter earnestness you don’t always find in those genres.

That may be because for Maher, music is life. He has been through a lot during his time as a musician, bouncing back from a harrowing battle with addiction, to come into this moment of renewed passion and drive and purpose. In fact, it seems like he may just be getting started.