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“People still assume that a female artist is just going to be a singer, and people will listen to my music and ask who I got to do the guitar solos and I’m like, ‘That was me!’”: Maya Delilah on what it's like to be a young female guitar player

BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Maya Delilah performs on day 2 of The Great Escape Festival 2025 on May 15, 2025 in Brighton, England. (Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage).

Rising British singer-songwriter Maya Delilah has been discussing what it’s like to be a young female guitarist in the industry, suggesting that she doesn’t always get the respect that she deserves.

Quizzed by Music Week on her experience of the guitar world, Delilah says: “It is still so male-dominated. I was a tomboy and I did see it as a boys’ instrument. I wonder if I was more of a ‘girly girl’, would I have picked it up? That’s a scary thought.”

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