Maria Lund was born in Munich, Germany. Her parents are both opera-singers, Tamara Lund and Alexandru Ionita. At 16 she started a jazz-singing career in Finland and she had the luck to work only with the best there. Heikki Sarmanto, Jarmo Savolainen, Sakari Kukko, Ted Curson, etc. She started acting seriously in 2003, on well-known Finnish stages.