La Marti
La Marti & co
Martina Magionami, aka La Marti is a Florentine pop-folk singer-songwriter born in 1992 who shares biographical and purely invented stories, emotions and travels, sometimes just equipped with a guitar and voice. The first approach takes place as a child, with the piano at home, as an autodidact. At the age of 11 she starts studying classical guitar with M° Marina Smuraglia but then the desire to experiment grew up with her: so as a teenager she took up the electric guitar and later on the acoustic, passing from rock to blues, from country to folk, deepening both fingerpicking and flat-picking techniques with M° Livio Guardi.
She emerges in 2016 on YouTube with La realtà dei sogni, written for a video project conceived and created by MustAchieve; she keeps recording and playing live new songs in Italian (ex: L'autostoppista).
In 2020 she undertakes and consolidates the collaboration with producer and songwriter Giulio Tonini, by recording in his T.Lane Studio One Place in Mind, Isola, Buonanotte di un invisibile and also participating in other colleagues' recording sessions.
Over the years she has been involved in various projects including SoundZanobi, an Anglo-Florentine soft/rock band, the old-time/bluegrass duo with Scottish mandolinist Grant Findlay and the Texita trio with Salvatore Lombardi and Molly Chapin with a "sexypoprock" repertoire with delicate jazz and RnB influences.
She performs for the first Sofar Sounds in Prato in July 2022 and presents some new projects such as The Virgin's Fountain (April 2022): written with Norwegian singer Nanne Emelie Andersen, it is an indie-pop song about a man who secretly mourns the loss of his true love. It was aired on numerous podcasts and radio stations in Europe, America and Australia. It therefore anticipates an EP of songs written and/or performed in collaboration with other artists from the US and UK (with release expected in 2024) and an important contribution for the recording of the parts of The Fox in the Music of the Stars musical written by Peter Dulborough
(based on the story of The Little Prince).
His first EP called LOOP was released on 13th October 2023, a collection of "moments of ordinary madness": a series of stories and themes in Italian and English in which the psyche is the protagonist.
From 1st March 2024 it is possible to listen to the Anime Fragili EP in streaming, produced with
Matteo Castrati / Mad Jaguars Studio: five songs where the English language demonstrates that La Marti's music knows no geographical boundaries, a journey between folk and pop rock to represent a romantic soul but which hides a more rebellious side that aims for a rebirth typical of the younger generations.
"Tornerà" is among the 50 songs selected for the Youth Amnesty - Voci Per La Libertà Award (2024).
On 3rd May 2024 she released From Afar, a single written with Peter Dulborough of SoundZanobi, which takes inspiration from the philosophical concept of the music of the spheres (musica universalis) for which the movements of celestial bodies (Sun, Moon and planets), believed to be located on rotating spheres and they would produce a music audible only to the ear of the gifted and consisting of harmonic-mathematical formulas. (Production is by Samuele Cangi / Blue Moon Rec Studio, who also produced The Music of The Stars recordings).
She mostly played around Tuscany and the most recent and remarkable performances were in 2022 for the first Sofar Sounds in Prato and in 2024 the San Carlo Buskers Festival in San Vincenzo (LI)
and Firenze Suona Contest in Florence.
In August 2024 she performed in Dublin and Galway for some solo acoustic opening acts, busking and open mic events (Grafton Street, St Stephen's Green, Fibber Magees, Sin É, Roisin Dubh and Ol'55 Pub).