IMS is proud to announce that Maria May will receive the IMS Legends Award 2025, recognising her outstanding contribution to electronic music culture. The award will be formally presented during The Beatport Awards on Thursday 24 April, with a dedicated industry lunch celebration held during IMS Ibiza.
Heading up ‘Team Disco’ at CAA, Maria’s work has propelled artists including David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Hugel, Sara Landry, Róisín Murphy, Hernan Cattaneo and Meduza and many more to global success. One of the industry’s most influential behind-the-scenes figures Maria has been a proactive advocate for the electronic music community and continues to champion, honor and support women in music and the electronic music business.
Maria May says:
“To receive this recognition is both humbling and very exciting. Not merely because of what it represents for my career, but because of what it stands for in the wider culture of electronic music. This award is not just about me. It’s for the women who came before me, the ones who were overlooked but laid the groundwork anyway. It is for the women beside me now, fierce, brilliant, relentless who continue to strive. And it’s for the women still coming — who I hope will never have to ask for permission to belong here.
Thank you to all the amazing artists I have worked with. Thank you for the music. Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way. Thank you, IMS. The journey is far from over and I’m still dancing. See you on the dance floor.”
Congratulations to Maria on the amazing journey, well deserved, and grateful to have her as a long standing Board Member of the Night Time Industries Association.
