Núa - Núria Martorell has gone through a long list of bands and orchestras

Núa (Núria Martorell) born 1973 in Mataró, Barcelona province. Without musical education of any kind or vocal techniques learned in school, Nua, taught herself to sing and educates his listening ear pieces by artists such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson from the early age of 6 years. Those interpreters owes much of its influence on the color of her voice. Interested in soul and funk groups of the Motown era, Núa, draws on all those items that come to blows. Never part of any gospel choir, but would have liked.

For circumstances not shown interest to become a musician until he realizes that music is what makes her happy and part of her first singing group, Angelus, 1993, where version issues Ottis Redding or Sam & Dave with unreleased songs also. It highlighted the guitar later recognized Pepo Lopez. Finish your college career in Graphic Design which works for many years while serving at night, but soon realizes she is not made for it, but to sing.

From then until now, Núa has gone through a long list of bands and orchestras. Since 1995, offers concerts as a duo, trio, quartet .... and acts in several Spanish provinces presenting a multitude of projects. It acts on television Catalan autonomy, TV3, in imitation of Aretha Franklin and then passes through dance bands like the Band Bucker where he meets his friend Javier Herrera. They worked with musicians such as Toni Moreno, Joselin Vercher, Quim Nicuesa .... numerous concerts offering much of the Spanish territory and also integrated in both groups of the 70s legendary as The Cheyenne.

After some time Witch Doctor enters later named Mr. Nilsson, focusing on international pop-rock with soul-funk medleys. He knows the guitar Pol Sanchez, who will work with later in electric jazz quartet in 2009 and with it, begins in 2003 Akord's draft, funk-jazz groove! musicians of the new situation with Catalan as the piano Carles Sanz, Jordi Porcar on bass, Xavier Lopez on alto sax, tenor sax Dani Margalef, Ramon Casanovas on trombone, among others.

In 2005, the group participates in TusTouns Annual Progressive Rock Festival de Catalunya in Barcelona, where he plays tracks symphonic progressive rock alongside the bassist or violinist Dick Them Ewa Pyrek among others. Also in 2006, enters the vocalist for the band Group66, where he collaborates with bassist Marcelo Granja Karl Jacobi, performing many concerts in renowned venues in Barcelona that year. Núa begins to feed and to focus their interest in Brazilian music and jazz, while performing rhythm & blues acoustic concerts with the renowned Danilo Pinheiro on guitar or Jaume Rivera on bass.

Fresh from a five-month tour has taken her to many European countries in 2008, singing as a jazz vocalist with the formation WARNING Electric Quartet, composed at the piano Svizzeri Stefano, Fabio Tropea on drums and the bass Francesco Leone, Núa live gravel of the pieces that can be heard on its website. His interpretations of jazz standards pieces are characterized by their strong influence of rhythm & blues and soul, and free use of scat. When you arrive to Barcelona, so Núa Núa Jazz where he collaborates with musicians from the likes of Pol Sanchez on guitar, bass or Paco Perera the Eloi Lopez on drums.

In turn, in 2008, operates in the Broadway musical Av, led by the company La Nouvelle Epoque, with Georgina Nieto and Assumpta Pasqual, and begins at the end of that year, the Beat Club project, a formation of 10 musicians including Raul is Túrnez, Joselin Vercher, Freddy Cabestany or Quadreny Lluis, presented at Luz de Gas, Barcelona, in November 2009. Núa currently collaborates with different formations, like the second disc Kilmara or bands like Grand Palace next to Juan Mena and start working on their first project as an artist. An album of unclassifiable mix of style where it counts with the collaboration of a variety of musicians and production of the renowned musician Danilo Pinheiro.