Mara Measor is first and foremost a storyteller. Born in Hong Kong, Mara is now always on the lookout for a quiet corner in New York City where she can write, sing, and create. Through her brand of mellow folk music, she explores the tensions in faith, art, and motherhood with wistful melodies and disarmingly sincere lyrics.

In her latest studio album Don’t Tell My Child (2021), Mara captures the growing pains that came with her new identities: a mother learning to love, a child grieving a parent's death, an artist looking for peace. The deep poetry and keen melodic sense of the songs take the blank space of a five year gap between albums and fill in Mara’s story with an honest and relatable perspective on the tension inherent in change. The album was recorded by Brooklyn-based producer Jon Seale (Feist, Fleet Foxes, Josh Garrels).

Mara released her self-titled debut album in 2013, which was picked up by Indie Music Reviewer and later selected as the Best of the Year performance by "The Works” on RTHK (Hong Kong). Deemed “One To Watch” by Audrey Magazine, she was the opening act at the Awards Ceremony for the Asian American Journalist Association. Additionally, her track “Ready” was licensed on the TV show “One Life to Live."

After a well-received follow-up Christmas EP at the end of 2013, she went on to release Naked Prayers, her sophomore full-length album that raised over $23,000 on Kickstarter, landed a feature on Huffpost, and was accompanied by a book of prayers published by SPCK (UK) and Elevate (US).

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