Martina Stoessel

Martina currently lives in San Isidro along with her family.

She has been influenced and inspired by singers like Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Madonna, Justin Bieber, and Rihanna.

She has four tattoos including a peace symbol on her neck, a hand holding up fingers in the peace formation, a heart on her knuckle, and the words ‘All you need is love’ on her wrist.

Martina Stoessel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Alejandro Stoessel, film director and Mariana Muzlera, on March 21, 1997. She has an elder brother named Francisco Stoessel.

She received her education in private schools that also taught English. Studying piano, dance, theatre and singing, she began focusing on her artistic career at quite a young age.

Her parents started calling her Tini since she was 8 years old. She went on to use that nickname as the title of her first solo album.

Martina played a small role in ‘PatitoFeo’ (Ugly Duckling), a comedy TV series for kids that aired in 2007. Her father, Alejandro Stoessel, was one of the creators of the show.

In the years 2011 and 2012, she started recording Spanish versions of English songs including Shannon Saunder’s ‘The Glow’ which was called ‘Tu Resplandor’ in Spanish.

In 2012, she auditioned and landed the part of Violetta Castillo in ‘Violetta’, Disney’s comedy show for kids. She sang the promotional song and title track of the show, ‘En Mi Mundo’ (In My Own World). She recorded the same song in two other languages.

Martina has often stated that playing Violetta was easy for her as she had modelled the character after herself. She has also recorded the music of all the three seasons of her show Violetta.

In 2013, she gained immense popularity when she recorded the song ‘Let It Go’ from Disney’s hit animated film Frozen in two languages, Spanish and Italian. The Spanish version ‘Libre Soy’ has gained almost 2 hundred million views.

On August 10, 2013, Martina performed at Un sol para loschicos, the UNICEF charity event and performed songs including ‘Ser Mejor’ with the cast of Violetta.

On the social service front, she visited sick children at the Gutiérrez Hospital and took part in various other initiatives under the ColectoTecho Association.

She organized a free concert in Buenos Aires in May 2014.

In 2015, she performed John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ at the opening of a charity football game which was convened by Pope Francis in Rome.

Martina Stoessel was named the honorary ambassador of world peace at the Red Vozpor la Paz ceremony held in Buenos Aires, on November 17, 2016.