Isabel Martin (3)

Singer and percussionist, focused on traditional and folk instruments: bendir, pandero cuadrado de Peñaparda (square tambourine), tambourine, riq, davul, spoons and other (grandma’s) kitchen tools. She felt attracted to folk culture from a young age and started studying Iberian singing and percussion with Eliseo Parra, Vanesa Muela and Mónica de Nut. Later on, at the Labyrinthos Center of Crete, she came into contact with Bulgarian and Turkish singing techniques with Tsvetanka Varimezova and Mercan Erzincan. She was instructed in percussion by Zohar Fresco and Vassilis Sarikis and in modal music by Efrén López, Hristos Barbas. Her interest, not only in studying music but also in human culture, led her to graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the UNED. Member of Milo Ke Mandarini.