Profile
Martika
Singer-songwriter + Record Producer and Actress
Female
Born
May 18, 1969
Age
44
Hometown
Whittier, California
Genres
Pop rock + Pop music
Record Label
Columbia Records
Other Names
Marrero, Marta
Martika is an American pop singer-songwriter and actress of Cuban descent. As a singer she released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over four million copies worldwide.
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CHILDHOOD
1969
Birth
Martika was born in 1969 in Whittier, California.
TEENAGE
1982
13 Years Old
She entered mainstream show business in an uncredited role as one of the orphan girls in the 1982 motion picture Annie.
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1984
15 Years Old
Martika and many fellow Kids Incorporated cast members were featured in the musical numbers from the Mr. T motivational video Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool! in 1984.
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1988
19 Years Old
Her first album, 1988's Martika, spawned the song “Toy Soldiers,” which she co-wrote with her producer Michael Jay, and became a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and many other countries.
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TWENTIES
1990
21 Years Old
Martika was encouraged by her agent to combine her love of film and music by scoring soundtracks and, in 1990, she wrote and recorded the song “Blue Eyes are Sensitive to the Light” for the soundtrack to the film Arachnophobia.
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In 1991 Martika was approached by Prince to record some of his tracks.
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1993
24 Years Old
Martika played the role of the lounge singer Dahlia Mendez in the early 1990s cop show Wiseguy, opposite Steven Bauer, who took over from Ken Wahl for the fourth and final season, but her return to acting was brief and she eventually faded from the public eye around 1993.
1997
28 Years Old
In 1997 a greatest hits album entitled The Best of Martika: More Than You Know was released.
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THIRTIES
2000
31 Years Old
During the 2000 explosion of Latin pop music, Martika re-emerged into the music world, singing backing vocals on various projects and contributing lyrics to releases by other artists, although she failed to grab any major-label attention for herself.
2001
32 Years Old
Instead she built martika.net in 2001, a website for her fans, and released a remix of a newly self-recorded song called "The Journey".
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2003
34 Years Old
In 2003 Martika joined forces with her husband, musician Michael Mozart, to form the band Oppera.
Adopting a latin pop sound, she and Mozart released Oppera’s debut album Violince in 2004.
FORTIES
2010
41 Years Old
In 2010, Martika, now going under the stage name Vida Edit, starred as Lolly Pop and co-produced a web-based television action program J8ded.
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In October 2011 Martika stopped using the stage name Vida Edit and launched a new personal website.
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2012
43 Years Old
As of October 1, 2012, Martika's Australian tour has ben cancelled.
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