Maja Spencer
Scholar
Writer
Adviser
Singer-Songwriter
Maja (Maya) Spencer is a polymath of Polish-Serbian and Macedonian-Serbian descent. She was born in Serbia to a well-known family. Spencer started writing early; her interest in music began when she was only four. At the age of six, she started playing the violin. Spencer is an expert on human behavior, manipulation, communication, and crisis management. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Serbian. Spencer had authored several books (three in English) and stated she was working on two more. Her books are known for conjoining psychology, story-telling, and analysis. Spencer left the Balkans in 2013.
Books:
(2012) Needless Thinking about Needs (Serbian: Nepotrebna razmisljanja o potrebama). Serbia: Knjiga Komerc ISBN: 9788677123468 (2013) Humanoid. Serbia: ISBN 978-86-915997-2-0 (2014) Something Is Wrong. Independent Media, Amazon: ISBN 978-1-5206-1207-2 (2023) Beside Yourself, Around Yourself, and Back to Yourself. Independent Media, Amazon: 979-8372174443
Discography:
Laughing at Unlaughable Jokes - Album (2022) Just a Dream - Album (2017) Different Kind of Music - Album (2022) Unbreakable - Single (2023) Don't Ask a Thing - Single (2023) Underground Love - Single (2023) Jerk - Single (2023) Indestructible - Single (2023) Living in My Mind - Single (2023) You and I - Single (2022) Plastic Brain - Single (2022) Voleo Lineal - Single (2022) Out of the Dark - Single (2021) Plastic Soul - Single (2021) Flirting with Infinity - Single (2020)
Although Spencer's music combines contemporary jazz, soul, R&B, jazz, rock, and pop elements, she remains open to different music genres and experiments with different styles. In 2018, she collaborated with reggae artist Winning Jah and co-wrote a song published as a single, "Woman's Errand." She is an honoree of the Obaland Royal Awards for 2018 as the best inspiring author and best Serbian singer. Spencer conducts research for her books that is known to be extreme. According to her, an author must do all they can to get to the facts. Spencer considers herself a skeptic and an altruist. She is a mother of one child.
Books:
(2012) Needless Thinking about Needs (Serbian: Nepotrebna razmisljanja o potrebama). Serbia: Knjiga Komerc ISBN: 9788677123468 (2013) Humanoid. Serbia: ISBN 978-86-915997-2-0 (2014) Something Is Wrong. Independent Media, Amazon: ISBN 978-1-5206-1207-2 (2023) Beside Yourself, Around Yourself, and Back to Yourself. Independent Media, Amazon: 979-8372174443
Discography:
Laughing at Unlaughable Jokes - Album (2022) Just a Dream - Album (2017) Different Kind of Music - Album (2022) Unbreakable - Single (2023) Don't Ask a Thing - Single (2023) Underground Love - Single (2023) Jerk - Single (2023) Indestructible - Single (2023) Living in My Mind - Single (2023) You and I - Single (2022) Plastic Brain - Single (2022) Voleo Lineal - Single (2022) Out of the Dark - Single (2021) Plastic Soul - Single (2021) Flirting with Infinity - Single (2020)
Although Spencer's music combines contemporary jazz, soul, R&B, jazz, rock, and pop elements, she remains open to different music genres and experiments with different styles. In 2018, she collaborated with reggae artist Winning Jah and co-wrote a song published as a single, "Woman's Errand." She is an honoree of the Obaland Royal Awards for 2018 as the best inspiring author and best Serbian singer. Spencer conducts research for her books that is known to be extreme. According to her, an author must do all they can to get to the facts. Spencer considers herself a skeptic and an altruist. She is a mother of one child.