Author, composer, musician, arranger and performer. Originally from Upper Piedmont (Italy), lands of noble vineyards, Maria plays piano, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, guitalele, ukulele and harmonica.

A long life experience in festivals, clubs and prestigious theatres such as the Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo and the Olympic theatre in Rome. Several times in Norway, among the concerts she performs at the Bølgen Kulturhus on the Larvik Fjord with Roy Einar Dreng, at the Gule Galleriet in Stavern, at Nes Kirke - in the splendid medieval church of the twelfth - thirteenth centuries, and in many other suggestive places. In California, Maria has played in Los Angeles, at the Canters, at Good Hurt, twice at the Hard Rock Café in Hollywood.

She has released "Anyway" (album,2012), "Barbra Belle" (ep,2013), "Echoes Of Love - 10 Ballads To The North Wind" (album 2024).

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Maria Olivero has created the musical concept and wrote the music for "Still My Heart Beats, My Joséphine Baker" dedicated to the extraordinary story of Joséphine Baker.

The show sees several artistic collaborations, including the great harpist Vincenzo Zitello.
Paola Gassman reads an excerpt from Joséphine's speech at Martin Luther King's March on Washington, and a video of it has been specifically recorded for the show. Studio recordings of the concept album of the music are underway.

Maria is the author of "Today, Say No To Child Labour", music by Maria Olivero on the lyrics of Elena Maro, a song against the exploitation of child labour, appreciated by the International Labor Organization ILO, a United Nations agency based in Geneva. The song is featured in the ILO's international programme S.C.R.E.A.M for the music (Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media), in the book "La Torre Dei Mille Suoni". In June 2019, Maria was at the United Nations Palace in Geneva, in Room XX, the Human Rights Council Room, as part of the ILO Centenary celebrations, in the event related to the World Day Against Child Labour and the launch of the SCREAM Module for Music. The official version of the song sees the participation of great artists such as the choir of Piccoli Cantori di Milano, Saturnino Celani, Vincenzo Zitello, Raffaele Kohler, Giulia Riboli.

Maria Olivero works on the interaction of different art forms; in 2021 two concepts were presented in collaboration with Rossana Girotto: "The Blue Hour – the Hour of Dream, of Wake, of Ideas”, "Virginia's – music tells Virginia Woolf".