Martha Heredia

Martha Heredia
Birth name	Martha Roseli Heredia Rivas
Born	February 1, 1991 (1991-02-01) (age 20)
Origin	Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Genres	R&B, Latin, reggaeton
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2004-Present
Labels	Sony BMG

Martha Roseli Heredia Rivas (born February 1, 1991 in Santiago de los Caballeros) is a Dominican singer and the winner of the fourth season of the television program Latin American Idol. She is also sometimes known artistically as La baby (The Baby).

History

Martha Roseli Heredia Rivas was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, the second largest city in the Dominican Republic, on February 4, 1991. Heredia is the daughter of Felipe Heredia and Maritza Rivas. At the age of 13 Heredia discovered she had potential for singing and songwriting. At the age of 15, with her brother Luis Felipe, they created a group called Una Vía singing hip hop, reggaeton and other genres of urban music. Heredia later had the opportunity of working in the United States of America where she created and wrote her own songs. Since her rise to fame after Latin American Idol, Heredia has become a successful artist working in the USA and in the Dominican Republic.^[1]

Latin American Idol

At 18, Heredia traveled San José, Costa Rica to audition for the fourth season of Latin American Idol. She did well on her audition and later traveled to Argentina, where she was amongst the top performers of a Latin American Idol workshop. Her next test was to earn the most votes out of the 12 performers on the show. For two months, Heredia was very successful all the way up to the final between Heredia and Eduardo Aguirre of Costa Rica, where she performed with Franco de Vita. On December 10, 2009, after receiving more than 50% of the total number of votes, Martha Heredia became the new Latin American Idol.^[2]

Current work

After the release of her first single Musica in January 2010,^[3] Heredia is recording her new production with Sony BMG.^[4]

December 2010 car accident and controversy

While driving from her home city Santiago, to the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo, and more specifically driving through Villa Altagracia town, Martha crashed her vehicle, causing the death of a 16 year old Haitian student who was walking home. Martha herself suffered minor lesions, but after the incident became unavailable to both media outlets and also Dominican authorities.^[5]

References

1. ^ Short biography of Martha Heredia on an online blog
2. ^ Listin Diario. "País celebró triunfo de Martha anoche en Latin American Idol" (in Spanish). http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=124544. Retrieved 2010-09-24. 
3. ^ Consaborapueblo. "Martha Heredia Lanza su primer CD" (in Spanish). http://levar.typepad.com/dominicana/2010/01/martha-heredia-lanza-su-primer-cd.html. Retrieved 2010-09-24. 
4. ^ Alfombra Roja. "Regresa Martha Heredia y ya tiene listo su primer disco" (in Spanish). http://alfombraroja.do/?p=11744. Retrieved 2010-09-24. 
5. ^ Hoy. "¿Dónde está Martha Heredia?" (in Spanish). http://www.hoy.com.do/el-pais/2010/12/19/354830/Donde-esta-Martha-Heredia. Retrieved 2010-12-19. 

Preceded by Margarita Henríquez

Latin American Idol 2009

Succeeded by TBD

External links

• Latin American's Idol Official website

Persondata
Name	Heredia, Martha
Alternative names
Short description	Female vocalist from the Dominican Republic
Date of birth	February 1, 1991
Place of birth	Santiago de los Caballeros
Date of death
Place of death