Marta Gómez
Luminous Colombian folk that feels like a warm breeze through an open window. Intimate, jazz-inflected songs for quiet mornings and thoughtful reflection.
Luminous Colombian folk that feels like a warm breeze through an open window. Intimate, jazz-inflected songs for quiet mornings and thoughtful reflection.
Marta Gómez creates music that feels like a sanctuary. Her sound is a masterclass in restraint, blending the rhythmic DNA of Latin America - cumbias, bambucos, and zambas - with the sophisticated harmonic language of jazz. It is music that breathes, characterized by high-fidelity recordings that place her gentle, clear vocals right in the room with you. There is a profound sense of peace in her arrangements, which often favor acoustic guitars, upright bass, and subtle, earthy percussion.
What sets her apart is her ability to bridge the gap between traditional folk roots and contemporary singer-songwriter sensibilities. Her work is deeply literary, often drawing inspiration from South American authors or addressing social themes with a soft-spoken but firm moral clarity. She avoids the high-energy bombast of commercial Latin pop in favor of a crystalline, audiophile-grade intimacy that highlights the natural resonance of her instruments.
Start with 'Entre cada palabra' for a perfect introduction to her jazz-folk fusion. If you are looking for something more thematic, 'Coloreando' showcases her Grammy-winning ability to breathe new life into traditional songs with a timeless, universal appeal. It is the ideal soundtrack for moments that require a calm heart and a focused mind.
Marta Gómez is a Colombian singer and songwriter. After obtaining a Best Achievement Scholarship, she graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music. She currently lives in Barcelona. Gómez and her group perform a large repertoire of songs with a mixture of rhythms that range from Latin jazz to folk Latin American music. They have shared the stage with well-known musicians from various countries around the world. She was nominated for the 2004 Latin Billboard Music Awards in the category "Latin Jazz Album of the Year". In 2014, she won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album for Coloreando: Traditional Songs for Children in Spanish. In 2014, Marta Gómez, seeing how the conflict between Israel and Palestine was escalating, composed the song Para la guerra nada, in 2017 Marta Gómez was invited to sing it at the world summit of the El Testigo on the work of Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado. By 2020, this song was turned into an illustrated book, in which the spirit of peace is the protagonist.
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