MARTINA CAMARGO

MARTINA CAMARGO IS ONE OF COLOMBIA’S LEADING CANTADORAS AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES IN TAMBORA, THE AFRO-COLOMBIAN MUSICAL TRADITION OF THE MAGDALENA RIVER. BORN IN SAN MARTÍN DE LOBA, SHE HAS CARRIED THIS REPERTOIRE ACROSS THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES. HER ALBUM CANTO Y RÍO EARNED A 2024 LATIN GRAMMY NOMINATION, AND IN 2026 SHE RECEIVED CARTAGENA’S MEDALLA DE LA ORDEN PEDRO ROMERO IN RECOGNITION OF HER ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY AND PRESERVATION OF AFRO-COLOMBIAN CULTURE. BUILT AROUND POWERFUL LEAD VOCALS, CALL-AND-RESPONSE SINGING AND TRADITIONAL PERCUSSION, MARTINA’S MUSIC PRESERVES THE STORIES AND RHYTHMS OF HER COMMUNITIES WHILE SPEAKING TO WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT, DISPLACEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE. A NEW GLOBAL GENERATION HAS DISCOVERED HER VOICE THROUGH ELECTRONIC REMIXES GENERATING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF STREAMS. IN BRUSSELS, THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE MARTINA IN AN INTIMATE SETTING THROUGH CONVERSATION, A LIVE CONCERT AND A RUEDA DE TAMBORA, JOINED BY SPECIAL GUESTS LOS GAITEROS DE BRUSELAS AND AMALAYA, IN COLLABORATION WITH RUEDA.BXL AND SOUNDS.