India Martínez

India Martínez is an artist with a special charm. Her manner of acting delights in short distances and engages in large audiences, and has made her an artist brimming with femininity, talent and mystery. No matter how you face an album in which you compile a selection of versions as in Other Truths (2012), to be given to your facet as a songwriter as in Camino de la buena suerte(2013), or to join your voice to the Of 15 great artists as in his new work, Dual. India is always that sweeping voice and that essentially flamenco and pop cocktail that has catapulted her as an essential artist.

In 2008 he released his second album, Despertar. “And there I started to dye my ideas of fusion of different music. I participated in lyrics, in melodies”, says India. The album was nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards (Best New Artist and Best Recording Engineering) and “It was an energy kick, support”, India says.

Enforced, India continued its quest. “It was a matter of discovering new formulas, a different system of work”, he says. “I needed a period of cleanliness, to find myself. And I broke everything, I went to Madrid to live alone, to study harmony, piano, acoustic guitar, singing, interpretation, flamenco dancing, belly dancing, contemporary … Four hours of each subject a week. I dedicated myself to study, to study, to my music, to reinvent myself”. It was a key moment: “Now everything revolves around who I really am. Feel every word, every phrase of a song, reach the power to convey”.

In 2012 he achieved his first Gold Record with Trece verdades, which was during 48 weeks in the list of the best sellers in Spain. It’s an album that India understands as a mixture of cultures and world music. “The Hindu, the Arab, the flamenco … I do not want it to have any border”, he said. What better example than beating love, a song that mixes the root and the contemporary in a different fusion.

If in Otras verdades the witness of the composition gave in to give herself fully to the interpretation, India made the opposite way in Path of Camino de la buena suerte, an album in which the Cordovan regained the leading role as author. Without losing its Andalusian roots, the album, which was Disco de Oro, is impregnated with the music and experiences lived in the different countries to which it traveled, claimed to promote its songs. Mainly of America, like Mexico and Colombia.