Gabriela Martina is a vocalist, composer, and educator originally from Switzerland, living and working over 13 years in Boston and New York. Martina has had the opportunity to perform and collaborate with heavyweights like Meshell Ndegeocello, Jack DeJohnette, and Angelique Kidjo. She has recorded with veteran drummer J.R. Robinson and was a semi-finalist in the Shure Voice Competition at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival. She released a critically hailed EP in 2010, Curiosity, which included her original song “Ain’t Nobody,” a finalist in the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2012. Released in 2016 with a four-star review from DownBeat, her album, No White Shoes, represented a major step in the singer’s sojourn as a 21st-century musician. For her album ‘Homage to Grämlis’, Martina had the great honor to receive the Arts & Culture Award 2020 from Horw, her home town in Switzerland. She also received the DIPLÔME DE MÉDAILLE DE VERMEIL from the lauréats Arts-Sciences-Lettres, 2020, in Paris, France. During the time of the pandemic, Gabriela Martina composed nine new compositions for her newest album called ‘STATES’ that will be released in 2024.