Gabriela Martina
Gabriela Martina (Swiss) is a vocalist, composer, arranger,
and bandleader living since 2008 in the US.
Released in 2016 with a four-star review from DownBeat, her
newest album, No White Shoes, represents a major step in
the singer’s sojourn as a 21st-century musician. Martina had
the opportunity to perform and collaborate with
heavyweights like Meshell Ndegeocello, Jack
DeJohnette, and Angelique Kidjo. She recorded with veteran
drummer J.R. Robinson and was a semi-finalist in the Shure
Voice Competition at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival,
performing with guitarist Lee Ritenour’s band. Martina released a critically hailed EP in 2010, Curiosity,
which included her original song “Ain’t Nobody,” a finalist in the American Society of Composers, Authors,
and Publishers Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2012. Martina owns her own booking agency
called Red Velvet Sounds and is cofounder and curator of the free improv concert series In Momentum.
Full Circle is a piece about climate change, a high conflict. It is about being together on this planet earth and about the fact that we all have to pitch in in order to make ends meet. There’s no time left. We have to act now. Finding peace would be a first step in order to be able to find a common ground – quite literally speaking. We only have one planet that we all share together. So let’s get on this before it’s too late. The spoken word by Khrys Williams // Music and lyrics by Gabriela Martina. 1-MIN VIDEO: https://youtu.be/B7iP1TQCQEE
Full Circle is a piece about climate change, a high conflict. It is about being together on this planet earth and about the fact that we all have to pitch in in order to make ends meet. There’s no time left. We have to act now. Finding peace would be the first step in order to be able to find a common ground – quite literally speaking. We only have one planet that we all share together. So let’s get on this before it’s too late. The spoken word section is written and performed by Khrys Williams. Music and lyrics are written by Gabriela Ma
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