Maya Jupiter

Born in Mexico but raised in Australia, Malisha Jupiter was exposed to hip-hop when American rappers became a fixture on Australian radio in the '90s. After impressing her high-school friends with her ability to sing along with those songs on the radio, she penned her first original rhyme at the age of 14. Four years later she was attending the same club every weekend, trying to talk the promoter into letting her on-stage. Eventually he caved in and gave Maya Jupiter -- her Turkish mother suggested the name to reflect the Mayan side of her heritage -- her first opportunity to ...