Maria Palmqvist is a singer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, originally from the town of Karlsborg. She has worked as a freelance musician since 2015. 

Many years have been devoted to music studies and she holds a Bachelor degree and a Masters degree in improvisation from the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. She easily moves between genres and expressions but is mainly active within the fields of improvisation, alternative pop, musical theatre, and contemporary music. In addition to creating original music, she works in a range of projects as well as making soloist performances.​

Maria is a composer and a singer whose creations stems from the heart. The lyrics and the music are conveyed with urgency and sincerity, leaving space for the text to breathe and the voice to bloom. Here, everything from sheer whispers to big power ballads take place - always with the voice at the core.

Full-length album Take My Yoke was released in 2021 and EP If I Broke in 2023.​Next full-length album is in the making where her love of literature plays an important part; poems by William Blake and the novel The Road by Corman McCarthy are interpreted and act as sources of inspiration.


Some of her other collaborations include; Bohuslän Big Band, Gothenburg Wind Orchestra, Lena Willemark, Lindha Kallerdahl, Vilhelm Blomgren, Viva Vocal Ensemble, Lauri Kadalipp Ensemble, Walter Lang and Darkthrone Forest. She has toured in Germany and in the Faroe Islands and played as supporting act to Danish artist Pernille Rosendahl. In 2019 she was a soloist on Swedish television's Midsummerprogram and together with the production company Stagebird she has created the concert program Nog Hade Jag Drömmar.