Mayte Martin

María Teresa Martín Cadierno (Barcelona, April 19, 1965), stage name Mayte Martín, Spanish flamenco singer, composer and cantaora. Gold Medal for merit in Fine Arts (2021).

Artistic career

Daughter of a father from Malaga and a Catalan mother. She was born in Barcelona, on April 19, 1965. Flamenco singer and bolero singer, she is also a composer, she recorded her first album Very fragile in 1994 in which she alternated traditional flamenco with her own themes. She recorded her second album, of boleros, together with the great pianist Tete Montoliu under the title Free boleros in 1996, that same year she won the City of Barcelona Music Award. In 2000 she released her second flamenco album titled Querencias , based on the musical content of the first show she presented with the dancer Belén Maya, with whom she presented joint shows. forming joint artistic company.

In 2002 he recorded classic boleros and his own songs in the fourth work of his discography: Tiempo de amar, with the collaboration of the Cuban artist Omara Portuondo. In 2003, the Mayte Martín-Belén Maya company premiered the show Flamenco de Cámara. In 2005 and 2006 he presented his show My 30 years of love of art in which he performed songs from his flamenco career and also boleros. It premiered on September 22, 2005 at the Palacio de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and then continue through many other theaters.

In 2007 and together with the pianists and sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque, she presented a new project with the title De fuego y de agua in which they included popular Spanish songs collected by Federico García Lorca along with songs by Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Paco de Lucía, Carlos Gardel, several songs taken from Mayte Martín's repertoire and others written for the occasion by Joan Albert Amargós and Lluís Vidal, authors of the arrangements for voice and two pianos, This project was released on disc in the summer of 2008: De fuego y de agua (KML, 2008).

In 2009, Mayte Martín published and transformed into a record her show alCANTARa MANUEL with verses by the Malaga poet Manuel Alcántara that José Luis Ortiz Nuevo commissioned her to write to music to honor the poet at the Malaga flamenco biennial in 2007.

His version of the bolero "I try to forget you" It appears on the soundtrack of the documentary Bicycle, Spoon, Apple directed by Carles Bosch in 2010. In 2012 he self-released his album of boleros and love songs Cosas de dos recorded live at the concerts on 11 and 12 May 2012 at the Luz de Gas Room in Barcelona.

On January 24, 2013 he premieres his live show Por los muerte del cante at the Cúpula Las Arenas in Barcelona, recreating some songs that have moved him during his life.

In 2017, he began production of his new album Tempo Rubato, through the crowdfunding procedure.

Official discography

• Very fragile. (1994)
• Free boleros (1996) with Tete Montoliu
• Querencia (2000)
• Time to love (2002)
• Fire and water (2008) with the sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque
• By singing Manuel (2009), about poems by the poet Manuel Alcántara.
• Two things (2012), repertoire of bowlers and love songs.
• Rubato Season (2017)

Awards and recognitions

• Gold Medal to merit in the Fine Arts (2021)
• Madrid Community Culture Award (2019)
• Barcelona City of Music Award (1996)
• Mining Lamp at the Cante de las Minas Festival (1987)