Marta Sánchez

Marta Sánchez López (born 8 May 1966) is a Spanish singer. She has sold more than 10 million albums.

Biography

Marta was born in Madrid, Spain. Her father, Antonio Sánchez Camporro, was an Asturian opera singer. She began her musical career with the band Cristal Oskuro, but shortly after she was discovered by Tino Azores, a sound technician for the popular pop/rock group Olé Olé. In 1985, Marta became the band's lead singer replacing Vicky Larraz, which brought her to fame and made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1980s in Spain, during a time when the country was easing the traditional rigid moral values of Catholicism.

Her first hit with Olé Olé was "Lili Marlen", a Spanish adaptation of the popular World War II German love song (Its greatest hit was singing this same theme in the Televisión Española New Year Celebration, aired on 31 December 1986). Other hits like "Bailando Sin Salir de Casa" and "Con Sólo Una Mirada" followed with the group. She remained with the band until 1991 before deciding to pursue a solo career.

In 1993, Sanchez released her debut solo album, Mujer produced by Ralf Stemmann. Its first single, "Desesperada", written by Stephen Singer, Austin Roberts was released both in Spain and The Americas was a huge top ten hit and now with 99 Million streams on Spotify. A second single, "Tal Vez", was provided by Thomas Anders and Ralf Stemmann, but it was the 3rd single, "De Mujer a Mujer" which would establish her as a household name all over Latin America. Following this successful debut album, Marta released Woman, an English version of Mujer. This made her one of the first Latin artists to do the English crossover. Sánchez received a nomination for a Lo Nuestro Award for Pop New Artist of the Year at the 7th Lo Nuestro Awards.