India Martínez

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.

Early life

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". Her artistic name was created by the first manager she had at the age of 17, when she signed her first record contract.

Career

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.