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Artist
Martha Velez
12+ albums
bluesrockpsychedelicblues rockfemale vocalist
about
Martha Carmen Josephine Hernandéz Rosario de Veléz is one of the best kept secrets of music. Not only her album "Fiends and Angels" has collaborations as relevant as Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell, Jim Capaldi, Christine McVie, Brian Auger, Keef Hartley, Gary Thain, Paul Kossoff, Stan Webb, Chris Wood and much more but the following, "Escape From Babylon" was produced by Bob Marley and she was accompanied by the Wailers. She is also member of Van Morrison's Street Choir. Veléz started singing at the age of five years and won an opera scholarship at the age of 12 years, as a mezzo-soprano. She studied for three years, then went to the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. She holds a master's degree from Antioch University in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Cultural Mythology and Depth Psychology. She is a founding Fellow of the Imaginal Institute of Ojai, California. As a playwright, she wrote the award-winning play Power of the Powerless. Velez continues to use her voice as a singer for good will and social change. She began her recording career with the folk singing group The Gaslight Singers on Mercury Records. She was the female singer with Earl Mann, Al Alcabes and Jeff Hyman. Veléz released her debut blues-rock album Fiends And Angels on the Sire/Blue Horizon Records label in 1969; backing musicians included Eric Clapton, Stan Webb (Chicken Shack), and Paul Kossoff (Free) on guitar, Christine McVie (Fleetwoo
