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Maria Luisa Ramsey Kagahastian (born March 21, 1970), known professionally as Jaya (/ˈdʒaɪə/), is a Filipino singer, actress, and television personality.

• Referred to as the country’s «Queen of Soul», she is known for her distinctively deep voice and soulful singing style.
• Jaya also ventured into musical theatre, playing the role of Surpanakha in the 1999 Filipino musical Rama at Sita staged at the University of the Philippines Theater.
• The album consisted largely of freestyle dance tracks written or co-written by Stevie B, who also provided backup vocals.
• Her mother was Elizabeth Ramsey, a Filipina comedian and singer of Jamaican and Spanish-Filipino descent.
• After five years in the recording scene, she released her first greatest hits album, entitled Five featuring a duet of Habang May Buhay (While There’s Life) with Regine Velasquez and Kung Wala Na (If It Is Gone) from the Abandonada soundtrack.
• In 1999, Jaya released, her fifth album released in her native country since 1996, entitled Honesty originally done by Billy Joel, was also her career single.

2016: All Souled Out and Sunday All Stars judge

She sang Save the Best for Last jaya 9bet on her Real.Love.Stories album, which was originally sung by Vanessa Williams. In 2023, Jaya became subject to controversy after John Lapus posted a blind item on Twitter, alleging that there was an unnamed singer repeatedly liking anti-transgender Tweets on the platform. She was one of the «Big Four» judges of GMA Network’s new musical variety show Sunday All Stars which began airing on June 30, 2013.

Compilation albums

In 1997, she released her third album In the Raw, (second in the Philippines) the follow-up to her massive-selling 1996 Philippine debut album, Jaya, which sold nine times platinum, (360,000 units; platinum is 40,000 units sold). Her first album under Viva Records hit an all-time high of 9 times platinum. The song hit number 14 on Billboard’s Top 40/Dance crossover chart and number 25 on the 12-inch Singles Sales chart.

After 18 weeks on the Hot 100, the song was still gaining in both sales and airplay—it ended up peaking at number 44 in February 1990— and remained in the Hot 100 for a total of for 26 weeks, an unusually long chart run for a single peaking outside the top 40. The album’s first single, «If You Leave Me Now», was a hit in discos and debuted on the U.S. Jaya won Best Female Vocal Performance for the song «Hiding Inside Myself» at 23rd Awit Awards on September 30, 2010, defeating some of the younger local singers of today.

Compilation albums

She released a Christmas album, entitled Kung Kailan Pasko which contained traditional carols alongside original compositions, including a jazz version of The Christmas Song. Jaya’s follow-up single, «One Kiss Per Minute», was a minor dance hit, but failed to make the pop chart and the third single from the album failed to chart as did another non-album single in 1993. It was her third cover album, containing classic R&B and jazz songs that she grew up listening to.

In 1999, PolyMax Records, a label of then-PolyGram Records Philippines (now an affiliate of Universal Records) released Jaya’s A Love Album, first released in 1992 in Japan under the same title. She adorns Magpakailan pa Man (Up to the End), with soulful, Toni Braxton-styled flourishes, and renders the upbeat, «Together» with panache and verve. She also won as Best Interpreter at the Asia Song Festival held in Hong Kong in February 1997 for her rendition of the song «You Lift Me Up», composed by Danny Tan with lyrics by Dodjie Simon. She was a big hit when Pinoys first heard her belt out soul ditties in 1996. Jaya returned to the Philippines and signed a record deal with Viva Records in March 1995 and completed her first local album. Corrales then asked Jaya if she would like to return to Manila and record an album, to which she agreed.

A Love Album is exquisitely produced, and Jaya acquits herself well on the album’s upbeat R&B/dance-styled tunes and soulful ballads. In 1992, while touring Japan as a backup singer and keyboardist for American R&B artist Stevie B., Jaya was approached by the Japanese label Toshiba/EMI to make an album for Japanese release. Jaya is noted for being the Philippine music industry’s female record holder of a seven-times platinum album. Five songs were recorded in the US while the rest were done in the Philippines. In 1989, she was re-christened «Jaya» and signed a record deal with Stevie B’s label LeFrak-Moelis Records and her eponymous first album, produced by Stevie B, was released in the US. Jaya is the second Filipino recording artist to chart in the United States (the first being The Rocky Fellers), with her debut single «If You Leave Me Now» peaking at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

After high school in the U.S., Ramsey became a back-up vocalist to Miami freestyle singer Stevie B. She entered show business at the age of ten as a backup dancer for her mother, and at the age of 12 was a backup singer and front act for some minor and major shows. Her mother was Elizabeth Ramsey, a Filipina comedian and singer of Jamaican and Spanish-Filipino descent. Jaya also ventured into musical theatre, playing the role of Surpanakha in the 1999 Filipino musical Rama at Sita staged at the University of the Philippines Theater. Referred to as the country’s «Queen of Soul», she is known for her distinctively deep voice and soulful singing style.