Norma Jean Martine

Norma Jean Martine

Norma Jean Martine is an American singer/songwriter, originally from Middletown, New York now based in London, whose writing credits include Giorgia, Michele Bravi, Lena, Marco Mengoni, Ronan Keating and Ashley Roberts.^[1]

Italian singer Giorgia’s top 10 hit Quando Una Stella Muore (in Italian) was co-written with Martine, featuring on her 2013 Italian number 1 double platinum album Senza Paura (in Italian).^[2]

She co-wrote the single In Bilico which featured on 2013 Italian X Factor winner Michele Bravi’s debut top 10 album A Passi Piccoli (in Italian)^[3] and Lonely Nights (Hey You) on former Pussycat Dolls Ashley Roberts’ 2014 album Butterfly Effect.^[4]

In 2015 she co-wrote In The Light on Lena’s German number 2 album Crystal Sky^[5] and Come Un Attimo Fa on Marco Mengoni’s Italian number 1 triple platinum album Parole in circolo and the track Time Of My Life as the iTunes bonus track.^[6]

She featured on two tracks on Pablo Nouvelle's Heartbeat EP - Heartbeat and The Best Thing.^[7][8]

She is signed to BMG Chrysalis Music USA and to Universal Records Germany/Virgin EMI UK.^[9]

As a solo performer she has played the Calling Festival, headlined by Stevie Wonder, in London in 2014,^[10] Latitude Festival,^[11] the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2013 and 2014,^[12][13] and supported Tom Odell, Gaz Coombes and Lissie.^[14] In December 2013 Brendan Benson invited her to perform at his charity concert for the David Lynch Foundation at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN alongside such luminaries as Jack White, Butch Walker and Jakob Dylan.^[15]

In 2014 her single No Gold^[16] was used as the CW Network fall trailer in the USA^[17] and Fox 8's winter trailer in Australia.^[18] The single was also playlisted on Virgin Radio Italy without officially being released in the country.^[19]

In January 2015 she wrote with Burt Bacharach in Los Angeles.

On October 2, 2015 she released her debut single Animals^[20] on Virgin EMI UK and Capitol/Vertigo Germany

On January 29, 2016 Pablo Nouvelle released his album All I Need featuring two songs We Ain't Dead Yet and Paint cowritten with and sung by Norma Jean Martine^[21]

Norma Jean's second single Freedom, a cover of George Michael's 1990 hit Freedom '90, was released on the 15th February 2016. It featured in a multimillion-pound pan European advertising campaign for designer outlet chain McArthurGlen.^[22]

Norma Jean cowrote the title track from Ronan Keating's album Time Of My Life which was the highest new entry in the UK album charts at number 4 on the 19th February 2016^[23]

The 2016 Italian Eurovision entry No Degree Of Separation performed by Francesca Michielin has been cowritten by Norma Jean.^[24]

On May 20, 2016 Norma Jean released her single No Gold^[25]

On June 25, 2016 Norma Jean premiered the song I'm Still Here with Burt Bacharach at the London Palladium.^[26] She cowrote the song with Burt at his home in Los Angeles in 2015 and it features on her forthcoming album Only In My Mind

Norma Jean released her single I Want You To Want Me on 26 August 2016 - it features in the British movie Kids In Love which stars Will Poulter, Cara Delevingne and Alma Jodorowsky ^[27]

Her debut album Only In My Mind, produced by Danton Supple (producer of Coldplay's X&Y), was released in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2016.^[28]

Discography

Albums

• Only In My Mind (October 2016)

Extended plays

• Animals (November 2015)

Singles

• Freedom (February 2016)
• No Gold (May 2016)
• I Want You To Want Me (October 2016)
• Still In Love With You (January 2017)

Songwriting credits

References