Marija Akelan, a songwriter  from Vilnius, Lithuania, was born in 1983. Since the early childhood she has been interested in music, attended Vilnius  B. Dvarionas 10-year music school the class of piano and singing. Marija considers music as her favourite hobby, enjoys writing songs and poems in Russian, Lithuanian and English languages.
Singing solo and together with pop-rock bands, she took part and won various kinds of singing, piano playing and song writing competitions. In 2004 Marija was acknowledged the best singer and won the first prize in the song-writing competition “Durys”. In 2005 she created and performed a sound track for a psychological drama of an American film maker. In 2006 she took part in a famous music reality show on the one of the leading local TV channels. Since 2006 Marija Akelan produced some songs for Lithuanian radio stations. In 2007 the song “Ja vernus k tebe” was released on the Russian Radio Baltic CD “The Lithuanian Ten”- collection of the best songs performed by Lithuanian singers in Russian. As well as being deeply in music, Marija does photo modelling and since 2008 is a face of Lithuanian women clothing line.