Barbara Martinez

Barbara Martinez

Barbara Martinez was born in Venezuela and grew up in New York singing opera, studying musical theater and dance. She is a renowned flamenco dancer and singer and has performed with companies such as Andrea Del Conte Danza Espana. She performed in Carmen and La Traviata for The Met Opera. In 2008, she studied cante on scholarship at the Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville, Spain and in 2010, was honored to be invited to sing at Carnegie Hall to participate in a series put together by William Maselli, featuring world music singers. Today, she spends her time singing for flamenco dance companies like Carlota Santana Flamenco Vivo, Pasion y Arte, A Palo Seco, Sol y Sombra. She also performs as a soloist in NYC, and with a full sextet of flamenco and jazz musicians, in a lush and eclectic repertoire of flamenco, Latin, Sephardic, Middle Eastern and jazz, always interspersed with dance.