Marta Gomez: vocals and guitar
Emilio Teubal: piano
Franco Pinna: Drums and percussion.
Fernando Huergo: Bass.
Yulia Musayelyan: Flute.
Alejandra Ortiz: background vocals (recordings only)
Julio Santillan: guitar and arragements (recordings only)
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"With an exquisite voice, Gomez manages to sound like a pure folk traditionalist and jazzy pop adventurer at the same time" - The Boston Herald
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music, after receiving the Best Achievement Scholarship, Marta Gómez has developed an extensive music career in the US which has placed her as one of the most interesting singer songwriters on the world music scene today. Marta and her group perform a repertoire of original compositions based on a vast amount of rhythms from Latin America. On her songs, Marta mixes the joy of the Caribbean with the nostalgia of the Andes adding jazz and pop elements, taking the authenticity of South American indigenous folk music into a hip new realm. With more than 70 composed songs, This young singer-songwriter not only traverses a whole range of Colombian cumbias and bambucos, Argentine zambas, Cuban sones and Peruvian landos but she also writes the kind of melodies and refrains that translate across whatever language she is singing in. That may be the reason that lead Marta to share the stage with musicians of different genres such as Bonnie Raitt , John Mayer, Totó la Momposina and Mercedes Sosa. Marta was also chosen to record Kris Kristofferson’s “The Circle” on a tribute to this great American icon. Marta “lifted that song up to when it’s supposed to be, to where it belongs” According to Kristofferson’s own words. In March 2003, Marta’s song "Paula Ausente" based on the book "Paula" by Isabel Allende, won the The SIBL Project International songwriting contest as the best song inspired by a South American book. The song was included on a CD among others by artists such as Tom Waits and David Bowie. Later on her song “La Ronda” was included in the Putumayo World Music compilation entitled “Women of Latin America” and in 2005 Marta was chosen by “Fucsia”, a Colombian magazine as one of the 5 Most representative Colombian women of the year. With four albums under her belt ("Marta Gomez" 2001, "Solo es vivir" 2003, "Cantos de Agua Dulce" 2004, "Entre Cada Palabra" 2005), her self-released "Solo es vivir" was chosen by The Boston Globe as one of the 10 best albums of 2003 and her "Cantos de Agua Dulce" (2004) released by Chesky Records, was nominated for the Billboard Latin Music Awards as the best Latin Jazz Album of the year among Paco de Lucia’s, Nestor Torres’ and Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s. Her most recently released album “Entre Cada Palabra” (2005 chesky records) placed Marta Gómez as “The Best National World-Music Artist of 2006” by the Boston Phoenix. In an interview on the National Public Radio, journalist Steve Inskeep said he admires Marta’s capacity of “turning the bitter history of her native country into sweet music”.
Gracias guapa por el add!!! Qué bella y prístina es tu voz! un placer es la sorpresa de conocerte- asi a través de amigos en común.
Un abrazo de palabras lanzado al eter...desde La Plata/ARG
Los poemas no perduran como objetos, sino como presencias. Cuando lees algo que merece recordarse, li- beras una voz humana: devuelves al mundo un espíritu compañero. Yo leo poemas para escuchar esa voz. Escribo para hablar a aquellos a quienes he escuchado.
que fuerza tiene río!!! que bueno que estés desde allá lejos rescantando raíces!!! te mando muchos saludos! y te dejo invitadisima a mi myspace! un abrazo a la distancia.
Hola MArta, me gustaría que cuando puedas pases a escuchar los temas que subí, que son una premezcla de temas de mi disco MUDANZA, pronto a salir. Espero los disfrutes, un abrazo esteban
Getting geared up for another week in the trenches. Line-editing again this week. My wife has been reading the new book while I work on it and she's been surprisingly positive. Usually she's my toughest critic. Hopefully that means it's going to be a smash.
Thank's for the add ;-)) Good tracks here too !!! You can download for free 3 new tracks on our page, hope you'll enjoy ;-) Greetings from South of France Peace and Groove HappY-T & El Calife
Marta! Gracias por sumarnos! Nos gusta mucho lo que haces. Es un placer escuchar tu musica, tu voz, tu decir. UN beso bien tanguero desde Buenos Aires de los Hermanos Penelas!
Querida Marta, en primer lugar dejame plantear cuanto valorizo --tu quehacer artistico. Es tan maravilloso verte encarnar sentimiento y palabra en lo concreto de la cancion. Pero aun mas, tu voz pausada --es una invitacion a que caminemos contigo por la ruta de tu creatividad. Mil gracias--por hacer mi corazon palpitar y por crear un salto cualitativo en mi conciencia. Alberto
