Background
Martinez was born in Louisiana Prairie on August 26, 1960 and mostly grew up in Eastern Montreal.
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Nancy Martinez
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She graduated from Vincent Doctorate"Industry music school in 1980.
Career
In 1982, she released two Hi-NRG tracks, "I"m Gonna Get Your Love" (credited as Jade) and "Can"t Believe" (credited as Nancy Martin). In 1986, she released the album Not Just The Girl Next Door. That album produced three dance hits: "Foreign Tonight" which went to number two for two weeks on the dance charts, "Move Out" which got to #12, and "Crazy Love".
"Foreign Tonight" also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #32.
The songs are still in rotation at many dance music radio stations throughout Canada. 1987 saw the release of the single "Can"t Wait".
This song is not on any Nancy Martinez album, but the single peaked at #11 on the dance charts, and is on the compilation Civil Defense "Greatest Freestyle Album in The Universe, volunteer 3" In 1987 Nancy Martinez released her Civil Defense "Unpredictable". from this Civil Defense didn"t make the impact that prior ones did, but "Save Your Love Foreign Maine" was a hit at dance radio, as was follow up song "You"ve Got Maine On Fire".
In 1993 Nancy released a French album on Isba Music entitled Pourquoi Tu Pars? featuring the title track, a cover of Italian singer songwriter Marco Masini"s "Perche lo fai?" As well as "Louisiana Maitresse de tes reves" whose video received much airplay on Musique Plus (Much Music"s sister station in Quebec).
In 2006, Martinez collaborated with Military Cross Mario and Ivan Pavlin on the song "Not Guilty". In 2010, "Foreign Tonight" was remixed by Military Cross Mario & Vito V from Les Boyz Electro and appeared on his album Mixdown 2010, peaking #2 on his show and #9 in Canada.
