Maiya Sykes has appeared with artists including the Black Eyed Peas, Macy Gray, Fantasia, Joss Stone, Micahel Bublé, Leona Lewis, and Rita Ora and was featured in the Oscar-winning film La La Land. As a recording artist, she released a dance single with DJ Manny Lehman, “Body Rock,” recorded under the pseudonym Oceana, which reached number 1 on the Billboard Dance Charts in 2009. 

Shortly after her four-chair-turning debut on season seven of The Voice, Sykes began working with YouTube sensation Postmodern Jukebox. Her featured videos with Postmodern Jukebox have received over three million views.