Career
Max was raised in Košice, Slovakia, where he played with several projects. He began his music career in 2004 as the singer and rhythm guitarist of the popular rock-jazz band Skivers, played in heavy metal/trash metal band Blackened. In 2012 Max founded new project and the stagename Max Jason Mai / MAXJMAI using his childhood Personal Computer games nickname "MaxJMai", participated in Eurovision Song Contest for Slovakia with single "Don"t Close Your Eyes".
In the end of 2015 he released new single Rising Angels and started working on new material for debut record, announced release date - end of 2016 - first half of 2017.
Max is influenced by a wide range of artists of several genres. His earliest influence was Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, and the first album he owned when he was only 8 years old was Ozzy Osbourne"s Ozzmosis which was also one of his earliest inspirations as a singer.
Additional influences include Whitesnake, Guns North" Roses, System Of A Down, Alice In Chains, Alter Bridge. Max"s favorite singers include David Coverdale, Robert Plant, Serj Tankian, Myles Kennedy, Rob Halford, Chris Cornell, Axl Rose, et cetera
He fuses together his favourite elements of rock, popular and soul singers into his own singing style based primarily on emotion, wide palette of colours and four-octave vocal range.
Max currently resides in Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic. He"s also known for being a vegan/raw vegan and a supporter of animal rights campaigns. Besides that he"s a big fan of fitness and healthy lifestyle, nature, travelling and as he said, he doesn"t divide the music as a hobby and as a job.
"Music is a hobby and a passion and thanks God that my hobby is my job".