1. Hello, thank you for your time, please introduce yourself in a few words!
Hey TMM team! Thank you for the opportunity!!!
I’m Martchelo, I’ve been in the music industry since the age of 5! I am an R&B/Soul (and why not say POP) singer-songwriter based in London, having a great season so far!!!!
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
My latest single is called “Delicious” and it’s an easy chill summer breeze R&B track. I think the vibe was inspired by the summer days in Italy… it’s a continuity song process, followed my the previous single “Addicted”, which I was blessed by the R&B community, getting the Top r&b charts/stream on Spotify for 2 weeks!
3. Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?!
1.I grew up in studios since my mom was a music producer, and I love this life!!!
2. I am mixed dude: Dad’ side is Portuguese and Italian. Mom’ side is French and British! I am literally a pizza!
3. I write, produce, record, mix and master all my songs. I do all my background vocals also!!!
4. Every time I travel, I organize myself to visit at least 5 Music Stores in that specific country/city, including the second hand ones. So while I am in that place I go and spend some time looking for rare Vinyls and CDs… great shopping experience!!!!
5. In my spare time I like to exercise my videographer skills and I love to be behind camera producing documentaries and short films. Funny enough I haven’t produced any video clip for my music yet, I don’t think I’m ready…
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
I think a very cozy and comfortable answer would be Adidas, anything Adidas originals. For night concert a mix in between Adidas and Prada! Oh yeah!!!!
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
Music is something that I live for! I always have melodies in my head and I am always writing new songs. So melody is always my first step. Sometimes lyrics come just as an impulse of the beat, how the groove happens, what instruments are being played… sometimes I have already a theme planned and I work with some melodies around some basic words, much of dooo be doo, showoap bop, whatever you know… then the words come like improvisation at the time we’re recording. I am
Always influenced by R&B beats and tunes, so i always write something in that direction… lately i do the crossover and I produce house club mixes too…Sometimes I watch a documentary and got totally inspired to write about life, nature, love… for example, once I had a reaction to a medicine and my blood pressure went so high that I ended at the hospital. At the moment the doctors are seeing me, I hear the whole chorus for a dance track, so I get my phone, ask to everybody in the room a minute and start singing with the voice app open. Then the doctor ask: WHAT WAS THAT? And I was like, “Sorry doc, I just had a great idea for a song! But now we can keep the appointment going… ” For sure the track is called Blood Pressure and it’s a killing dance mix, which is part of my album.
6. Beside music, do you have any special talents?
I’d like to believe I am a good videographer. Maybe I’ll be directing some videos for other fellow musicians… ah, Pokémon trainer!!! I’ve been playing Pokémon for 20 years now! Huuuuge fan!
7. Being on stage feels like….!
Home! Fun! I love the adrenaline and I’m so happy that we are coming back to tour! I have the kick off concert for this new potential UK tour happening at the Yellow in Wembley on 20/02. That will be my first live performance in 2 years…. We are very excited!!!! I love being with the fans!!!!!
8. How did you learn to sing/ to write/ to play??
Well I grew up in a very musical family, so I was always surrounded by music. My mom was a music producer and she realised I could sing in the key, by me reproducing tv jingles. Since then, I’ve never stopped singing. Writing was a funny discovery, because the melodies were always in my head and I didn’t know at that young age that I was already “making music”. So around 12 or 13 I started experimenting with instruments and vocals in a 4 track tape deck. I don’t read music but I can play the piano, I just play… and because I used to go with my mom to the studio she used to work, all the technicians knew me. Once one of them took my tape deck and played in the studio… people was like: how did you do these vocals? And I was like: I don’t know, I sing what comes to my head. That’s how I discovered I could harmonize… little later I started paying attention on Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and The Carpenters vocals and the multiple sessions they used to do in their songs. So I started doing the same!
9. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls
Why so many remixes???
When I write a song, let’s talk about my single “Free Me”. I wrote it when I was in Germany with one of my idols, Michael Cretu, the mastermind behind the multi platinum new age project “Enigma”. When I came back home, I felt that FREE ME was a beautiful soulful ballad, but it would be great have a crossover and play the track at the clubs in London and also get a more Hip Hop variant.
So I go back to studio and recycle part of elements of the original track and I re-sing everything again. It’s almost creating a new song. So then I have “FREE ME (DARK MOON REMIX)”. I was listening the radio other day and “PUMP UP THE JAM” bt Technotronic was playing… in my head, I start singing along my own lyrics, for FREE ME at the top of their track and boom! I came back to the studio, reproduced the house elements from PUMP UP THE JAM and I create a 9 minutes House Club mix for “Free Me” incorporating even the famous Flute from “Sadness” by “Enigma”.
So yeah, “Free Me” ended being released in a 2 single set with 11 different versions!!!
Now with “Delicious”, the same thing’s happened! The original version, released last week is a nice and funky R&B track, but now I am finishing the almost 10 minute House Club version. It’s nice be creative, incorporate/interpolate and explore different music styles. The results are always amazing! “Delicious Remixes” will be released in the middle of March, and the mixes are inspired in another of my idols, David Morales!
So… why so many remixes? Why not? Hahahah
Your Instagram: @martchelomusic
The playlist for the concert in wembley 20/02