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KRISTI MARTEL
Genre: A Cappella, Alternative Rock, Blues/R&B, Experimental, Folk, Jazz, Rock, Soul/Gospel
Website:
//www.kmetal.net
Contact:
kristi@kmetal.net
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MORE ABOUT KRISTI MARTEL
“Kristi Martel loves life, and the joy she gets out of it exudes from her every pore. She can be singing about the darkest things in the world -- betrayal, self-hate, death -- and yet somehow, coming from her, it feels hopeful and uplifting.” --Marion Davis, Motif Magazine
“...love emanates from every note.” - Vienna Teng
“…a fine musician…Incomparable!” - Utah Phillips Featured on NPR and voted Best Alt-Rock Female Vocalist of Rhode Island in 2006, award-winning songwriter and avant-soul piano diva Kristi Martel grew up in New England and earned an ASCAP grant and two music degrees (Bard and Mills College) before beginning her touring and recording career. Her sweet presence and fearless songwriting endear audiences nationwide. Her piano playing combines her love of blues dissonance and syncopation with her classical training. Her powerful voice is at once sweet and bitter, emotional and visionary, articulating prayers and quirky autobiographical narratives in the same breath. Through Sealed Lip Records she has released six CDs.
Ravengirl is Kristi’s goofy joke superhero name for herself, her recognition of the crazy blessing it is that she felt joy everyday, amidst the profound grief, after her former life partner’s suicide in 2003. The album is full up with that joy, with the healing and transformation Kristi has undergone to be singing still so powerfully today. Since its October 2006 release, Ravengirl has already received a highly recommended from the Providence Journal and stellar reviews from Motif Magazine and Bay Windows, in addition to making Kristi Martel WERS Boston's Artist of the Week and the subject of interviews by the Providence Phoenix and Curve Magazine.
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