India Martínez

India Martínez
Martínez at the 38th Goya Awards red carpet in 2024
Background information
Also known as	La Niña del Puerto
Born	Jenifer Yésica Martínez Fernández (1985-10-13) October 13, 1985 Córdoba, Spain
Genres	Flamenco Pop
Occupations	Singer songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1996–present
Labels	Sony Music Entertainment España

Jenifer Yésica Martínez Fernández (Córdoba, Spain, October 13, 1985), known professionally as India Martínez, is a Spanish flamenco and pop singer.

She was nominated to Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist during the Latin Grammy Awards of 2009. She won Premio Cadena Dial 2012 award for the album Trece Verdades certified gold. She is signed to Sony Music Entertainment. She also won, in 2015, the Goya for the song of the Spanish film El Niño.

Her first contact with flamenco was through the dance classes she received from Nieves Camacho in Córdoba at the age of 5. When she was 11 years old, she moved with her parents to Puerto de Roquetas de Mar (Almería), where a year later she began to sing and also started to be called "La Niña del Puerto".^[1] Her artistic name was created by the first manager she had at the age of 17, when she signed her first record contract.

Her first performance was in 1998 in the television program "Veo, Veo", presented by Teresa Rabal, where she was one of the finalists. In 2000, she won a prize as a finalist and the special prize for promising young performer. In 2001, as a consequence of her participation in a contest of tarantos and tarantas and in the I Contest of Flamenco Between Quejíos and Pitas celebrated in San José (Almería), she obtained the prize for best performance, the special prize of the audience, and a scholarship from the Cristina Heeren foundation to learn flamenco in Seville. The following year, she received an invitation to perform at the IV Encuentro de Peñas Flamencas de Almería, which was held at the Hotel Playadulce in Roquetas de Mar together with Triana Pura, and at the II Noche Flamenca in Roquetas de Mar.^[2]

In 2001, she attended the tribute to Fosforito and José Sorroche celebrated in the restaurant La Juaida as a guest artist, and obtained the second prize in the Contest of Trilleros organized by Peña Antonio de Torres de laCañada. She has carried out solo performances in Almería pubs, in the Villaespesa Library and in peña El Palangre de Roquetas de Mar. In the same way,, she has intervened in the Easter Proclamation held at the Apolo Theater, in the election of Mister Almería held in the Llanos de Vicar, in recitals held at the Library of Murcia on several occasions and, during her stay at the Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville at the festival held at La Alameda, where she sings for dancing for the first time.

In 2003, she signed a contract with "La Voz del Sur", which released her first album,"Azule,,jos de Lunares" in 2004. This first album contained performances with several musical modifications of the classic boleros and tangos by José María Cortina.

In 2009, she was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards in the category of new best artist. She won three Cadena Dial awards: the first in 2011 for her album "Trece Verdades", the second in 2013, and the third in 2017 for "Te Cuento un Secreto ". In 2015, she won the Goya for the best song for the movie "El Niño", directed by Daniel Monzón. Besides this, she has collaborated with artists such as David Bisbal, Paulo Gonzo, Pitingo, Pablo Alborán, Vanesa Martín and La Oreja de Van Gogh, among others. Finally, on February 28, 2017 she was awarded the Medal of Andalusia.

Her second album, called “Despertar” came out in 2009. In “Despertar”, she fuses all flamenco styles and was subsequently nominated for Best New Artist at the Latin Grammy Awards that same year. In this album the singer remembers her deceased grandfather and pays tribute to him: The memory of her grandfather can be heard in two songs from her second álbum. Specifically, the singer covers Antonio Molina's song, Adiós a España, because he liked it very much and she names him in La Voz de un Marinero. This album was also nominated for Best Production.

In 2011, she released her third album "Trece Verdades": with the song Vencer al amor, the first single of this new album, India Martínez caused a profound impact; She pushed the song to become one of the three best-selling songs in Spain and Golden Record. From this album, it’s also critical to emphasize the song 90 Minutos and its video clip, directed by Charly Prada, due to its great sense of the aesthetics. A year later, in 2012, the album "Otras Verdades" ("Other Truths") comes on to the market with her own versions of songs by artists known as Luis Fonsi or Camila.^[3]

This last has also been recognized as a gold record and was also nominated in the Latin Grammys in the category of best traditional vocal pop album. In 2013, she released his penultimate album "Camino de la Buena Suerte", which once again became a gold record. In 2014, her latest release "Dual" (platinum record), compiled duets with national and international artists such as David Bisbal with Olvidé Respirar, Enrique Iglesias with Loco, and Abel Pintos with Corazón Hambriento.

In 2014, she performed a concert at Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid and started her sixth tour to promote her album of duets, “Dual”.

In 2016, she released her seventh album called "Te Cuento un Secreto", which was the best selling album in Spain in the first week after its release. In "Te Cuento un Secreto" she makes a new collaboration with the singer Prince Royce, with whom she sings Gris.

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