Marta Palombo

If Joni Mitchell and Florence + The Machine had a 21st century hippie daughter, it would be Marta Palombo. Hailing from Florence, Italy, she found her home in Nashville, Tennessee where she spends her time writing, recording, teaching, performing, and curating a cabinet full of local teas. Marta effortlessly weaves diverse influences, styles, and techniques into her teaching of songwriting, classical voice, and commercial voice.

Marta dove into teaching at an early age, co-founding and co-directing her high school’s a cappella group. She took charge of picking the music, teaching it, making practice tracks, and running after school rehearsals and auditions. Her senior year she became the teacher’s assistant, running sectionals (and occasionally jumping in to teach whole lessons) for three choir classes of all levels. She attended Belmont University, where she graduated with a Bachelors in Music and focused on vocal training, composition, songwriting, artist branding, and vocal pedagogy. During her four years of college, she taught rock music summer camps in her hometown and took on private students in her free time, teaching both voice and Italian.

Marta believes that in order to teach performance to the best of one’s ability, one must have first-hand experience in the field. As a choral performer, she was a six-year All State student. She also attended both ACDA and All State Sight Reading Choir for multiple years. She received numerous scholarships for voice and choral composition in high school, and turned to commercial music in college. Marta has already made quite a name for herself in Music City — she’s played at well-known venues like Café CoCo, True Music Room & Bar, Commodore Grille, Bowery Vault, Two Old Hippies, Boulevard Records, Just Love Coffee and Belcourt Taps. In addition, Marta has added both the Schermerhorn Symphony and Bridgestone Arena, where she sang back-up for Josh Groban, to her musical resume.

As an artist, Marta’s initial break into the industry came from an acoustic cover of LP’s 2015 single, “Lost On You”, soon followed by her debut extended play: 2016’s Revisions. The single “Sparrows” followed in 2017, along with her songs “Bitter End” and “Gold.” In 2020, she released her second EP titled Him, Vol 1. The title track, “Him,” received international acclaim and won the Vox Pop Award at the 18th Independent Music Awards. Re-emerging in 2021, she released a breathtaking series of reflective songs titled The Quarantine Tapes, which she recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

True to her signature style, Marta’s music continues to demonstrate her ever-growing passion for telling life’s most compelling stories, big and small. Admiring her roots while simultaneously eschewing the traditional notions of what a singer-songwriter should be is paramount to who she is as an artist and a teacher. With Marta, music is about embracing your unique voice and discovering your passion for performance in a healthy, fun, and natural way.