Bagatelle

Marta Esparza, singer of Bagatelle was born in Pamplona, city from which she inherited her passion for the music and where she studied in a French School. Her father, admirer of The Beatles, got her used to listening to a wide variety of musical styles and her mother taught her first songs to her.

To early age, and after realizing her obstinacy for studying piano in the Conservatoire, her parents bought her first keyboard, and after noticing she had a talent for music, they registered her to classes of guitar and it wasn’t until 1989, when she was lucky to fulfill her dream of studying piano. She combined these studies being formed as vocalist in different choirs.

Between 1989 and 2003 she studied Music Theory, Piano, Harmony, Coral, Chamber music and History of Music in the Municipal School of music of Zaragoza, in the Conservatoire “San Vicente de Paúl” of Zaragoza and in the Conservatoire of Torrent, emphasizing her participation playing the piano in the inauguration of the floor of image and sound of El Corte Inglés in Zaragoza.

In 1996 she created her first group called Vamp Pressure of style soul and R&B where she offered her first performances on a stage in local pubs in Zaragoza; collaborating with the Big band of the Puerto Rican artist Bob Destiny, considered the best jazz musician resident in Aragon.

In Zaragoza she gave particular classes of vocal skill and Music Theory while she was studying to be a teacher of music in the University, and she graduated in 2000, when she had moved to Valencia.

It was there, in Valencia, where she worked as tutor and teacher of music in the children’s school “Bolquerets” in 2001/2002.

In 2002 and 2003 she formed a part of the group Collage produced by J.M Moles and B. Blaya. Collage remained finalist in the XXVI edition of the “Festival de la canción de Benidorm”. After disagreements with the producers she thought of leaving her dream of living of the music, nevertheless, the destiny persuaded her to continue and she started working as singer, pianist and chorus-singer in different orchestras and groups where she was experimenting with different musical genres. Simultaneously she was collaborating in diverse projects recording choirs and recording guides of voice in songs as for the group Nash (that represented Spain in Eurovision 2007).

During these years she completed her formation, receiving classes of Speech Therapy  and of singing (Lydia Wellington); of dancing (salsa and funky) at the School of Agustín Williams and of musical computing, with André Fradko in 2005 and in 2008/2009 at “L'Espai musical” with Gilbert Romero (the director of Ghostla España). She knew him working at the group Distrito, and she is preparing her first work in solitarily with him