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Marti Walker

Long Beach, CA

Biography

From smatterings of sophistication & elegance, to feel-good, catchy soundtrack-esque grooves. Marti's songs are a seamless blend of jazz, Latin, pop, folk and world music with conscious lyrics, crystalline vocals & masterful flute-work… es pura magia! A trained musician from the age of 5, multilingual singer (English, Spanish and Portuguese), flautist, percussionist and songwriter, Marti Walker has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. Educated at Indiana University of Pennsy...

From smatterings of sophistication & elegance, to feel-good, catchy soundtrack-esque grooves. Marti's songs are a seamless blend of jazz, Latin, pop, folk and world music with conscious lyrics, crystalline vocals & masterful flute-work… es pura magia! A trained musician from the age of 5, multilingual singer (English, Spanish and Portuguese), flautist, percussionist and songwriter, Marti Walker has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. Educated at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Berklee College of Music with an emphasis on jazz studies and flute performance, Marti also lived and worked in Spain for over 3 years. She studied Flamenco and jazz with Jorge Pardo (reedman for Paco de Lucia), Celtic music with drummer and fiddler John Rae (Scotland), learned extended/contemporary flute techniques from Robert Dick (New York), and learned Afro-Cuban rhythms and musical concepts from Cuban master percussionist Evelio Machado. “Take My Hand,” a song uniting cultures, sung in English & Spanish, has been featured and has won top-billing on garageband.com in the World Music category. She is a vocalist/percussionist with Los Angeles-based East-meets-West sacred music band Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe, as well as with her own Brazilian/Latin/jazz-based group, Luxo Lounge, with keyboardist Ron Pedley (Barry Manilow, Ann-Margaret, Kirk Whalum). She has recorded on numerous CD’s, has been a studio musician, and performs solo and in collaboration with other musicians at a variety of live music venues, festivals and events including Health & Harmony Festival, Whole Being, Earthdance Festival, Oneness Festival, the Emmy Awards’ Green Party, Bali Spirit Festival (Bali, Indonesia).

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