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Marta Marrero (born May 18, 1969 in Whittier, California, USA), better known as Martika, is a Cuban-American pop singer. As a child she dabbled in acting making her film debut as one of the dancing orphans in the film version of “Annie”. As a teen she would star as ‘Gloria’ on the syndicated children’s variety show ‘Kids Incorporated’. After outgrowing her role, Martika would turn her focus towards her first love, music.
Hooking up w/ producer Michael Jay, Martika landed a deal with Columbia Records. Martika’s self-titled debut album was released in the fall of 1988. But it wasn’t until 1989 that she broke through in a big way. By January her debut single “More Than You Know” was a US Top 20 smash. Her second single, a haunting ballad about addiction, entitled “Toy Soldiers” spent 2 weeks at #1 in the US during the summer of 1989. Up next was a dance/rock version of the Carole King classic “I Feel The Earth Move” which would eventually score Martika her 3rd Top 40 US hit. This song as well as her previous singles also became huge hits all over the world by charting high in the UK, Australia, Japan and Spain just to name a few. A fourth single was released in Europe and Australia entitled “Water”.
After the success of her debut, her label compiled a 4 song EP of Spanish language versions of 3 of her hits (“Water” was included as well but in it’s bilingual original state). It was during this time that Martika would perform throughout many Spanish speaking countries, and was heavily promoted to the US Latino market.
Hooking up w/ producer Michael Jay, Martika landed a deal with Columbia Records. Martika’s self-titled debut album was released in the fall of 1988. But it wasn’t until 1989 that she broke through in a big way. By January her debut single “More Than You Know” was a US Top 20 smash. Her second single, a haunting ballad about addiction, entitled “Toy Soldiers” spent 2 weeks at #1 in the US during the summer of 1989. Up next was a dance/rock version of the Carole King classic “I Feel The Earth Move” which would eventually score Martika her 3rd Top 40 US hit. This song as well as her previous singles also became huge hits all over the world by charting high in the UK, Australia, Japan and Spain just to name a few. A fourth single was released in Europe and Australia entitled “Water”.
After the success of her debut, her label compiled a 4 song EP of Spanish language versions of 3 of her hits (“Water” was included as well but in it’s bilingual original state). It was during this time that Martika would perform throughout many Spanish speaking countries, and was heavily promoted to the US Latino market.
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Kyle_James wrote:
With the arrival of new music, means the arrival of new pics. Let's try voting up some of these. Pick your fave. http://www.last.fm/music/Martika/+images/74035036 http://www.last.fm/music/Martika/+images/74035074 http://www.last.fm/music/Martika/+images/74035102
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dannyboy77 wrote:
mmm it may grow on me but on a few listens to the new single I think Martika's music days should remain in the late 80s/early 90s.
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quierosersanta wrote:
FLOW WITH THE GO is on iTunes WORLDWIDE!!!!!!!!!
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quierosersanta wrote:
FLOW WITH THE GO is on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Flow-With-the-Go/dp/B00750IXSY/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328267928&sr=301-1 note this is the FINAL mastered version and is totally different from the preview
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quierosersanta wrote:
FLOW WITH THE GO is on cdbaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/martika itunes shortly!!
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quierosersanta wrote:
You can hear FLOW WITH THE GO in it's entirety! http://www.michaelgroupltd.com/blog/2012/flow-with-the-go It will be available VERY SOON!
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Kyle_James wrote:
Martika just wrote to me on Twitter. It was very exciting. I just wrote that I was looking forward to hearing Flow With The Go and that the snippet sounded Amazing, and she wrote back "Thank You So Much!!!" Very sweet of her!
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quierosersanta wrote:
Hey everyone, just so you're aware, it's going to take a few days for the single to propagate to all digital music outlets. Be patient. It's worth the wait!
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Kyle_James wrote:
Flow With The Go in 6 Days!!!!! So FREAKIN' EXCITED!!!!!!!!
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quierosersanta wrote:
"Flow With The Go"!!!!!
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JDonn wrote:
Looking forward to "Flow with the go", Martika is back!! (2)
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marksplace2008 wrote:
Looking forward to "Flow with the go", Martika is back!!
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MasterJockyRAVE wrote:
2 months until "Flow with the go" :D
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Kyle_James wrote:
Yah Baby! "Flow With The Go" single coming January 12th, 2012, "The Mirror Ball" Album coming February 12th, 2012. I can't wait to see her on tour, it's gonna be Nostalgia-tastic!!!!!!!!!!
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Kyle_James wrote:
Ooooh very excited!!!!! 12 hours to go!
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quierosersanta wrote:
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT this Friday, 11/11/11!!!!!
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cathedralheat wrote:
can't wait for the new album! have "love...thy will be done" on mega-repeat!
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thejetlounge wrote:
I love you more than you know.
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Kyle_James wrote:
We're so close to receiving a release date for the comeback album. I'm so FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!
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quierosersanta wrote:
Official site is up! http://www.martikamartika.com
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