Francesca Di Basi, or Maki Flow as you will know her, is an artist by heart and an artist by nature.
Her tagline “I write and sing my heart out” can be found on ever bio page she’s ever written.
Maki Flow came to London from Rome in October of 2018 to further develop and grow what is already, quite an established musical career. After successfully enrolling onto MA Commercial Songwriting and Production at Tileyard Education, she relocated to her new North London home. She says London is the place for her, she finds romantic tones of gesture on the “busy streets”.
Maki Flow crosses boundaries and genres, with some of her biggest influences being drawn from an eclectic mix of genres, including R&B, acoustic and dance. To her, good music is music that can provoke emotion, and have the ability to carry you away.
In Italy, Maki was already gaining recognition for her songwriting and artistry, with particular success in the EDM genre. She’s worked with Knightvision Records (Warner) in the Netherlands, and her first collaboration was in 2017, with 2 Italian Producers working with Casual Jam, an EDM label. In fact, she’s also collaborating on 2 more tracks with 2 more dance producers, which she is looking to release this year.
But most recently, Maki Flow gained major recognition on Spotify, after releasing the track “Teenage Love” with a duo called Wallaby on 28 Dec. The track reached over 100k streams in just one week and was featured on over 15 playlists including ‘New Music Friday’ in Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Iceland and many more! Maki said;
“The song is about being insanely in love, the kind of love that shakes your knees and blows your mind, that kind of love that can turn back the hands of time and can make you feel like a teenager again: invincible, free and safe.”
Teenage Love has also been added on The Vibe Guide and Sensual Musique channels’ on Youtube and reached respectively 77k and 27k views in one week.
We asked Maki what her goal is, and what she hopes to achieve out of the next year of her study at Tileyard. She said;
“I see myself as an artist, but I’m also a songwriter, my goal is to get a publishing deal”.
All we can say is, get to know the name Maki Flow, we’re anticipating big things. You can listen to “Teenage Love” here.
