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While last year was a tremendous blow for so many artists, Mavi Phoenix used the time to complete his gender transition, redefine his artistic vision, train his voice through its evolution of hormonal changes and write new songs locked down in his bedroom in Vienna. Now he flourishes as a newborn guy and releases the single ‘Leaving’ after having dropped ‘Grass And The Sun’, 'Nothing Good' and 'Tokyo Drift' earlier this year. During the long months of lockdown, Mavi discovered the guitar as his new main songwriting tool, and once again brought to life a completely new side of his musical journey. He created a new body of work, now blending indie-folk-rock and pop in incomparable fashion. ‘Leaving’ is only the first step on Mavi’s new path. After listening for the first time to his bedroom guitar demo-recordings he was ‘jumping around in my apartment because I finally had a vision for my new self’. ‘Leaving’ is about ‘when you love someone and they just don’t’ and pictures a way