Martika



"Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down..."

- Martika, "Toy Soldiers".

Martika was a pop singer and actress in The Eighties, mostly known for appearing on Kids Incorporated and... uh, Mr. T's motivational video Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool!.

Her first album, Martika, was released in 1988. It spawned a #1 hit single, "Toy Soldiers", which Eminem later Sampled Up for his own song "Like Toy Soldiers", and two other hits, "More Than You Know" and a cover of Carole King's "I Feel The Earth Move".

Her second album, Martika's Kitchen, was released in 1991. This album was produced and co-written by Prince, who combined Martika's pop music with elements from gospel, jazz, Funk, R&B and Cuban music and lyrically explored such Serious Business topics as crack babies, racism and homophobia. An interesting melange to be sure, which eventually kind of flunked on the charts. Thus endeth Martika's association with Prince.


 * Martika (1988)
 * Martika's Kitchen (1991)
 * Violince (2004)
 * Oppera (2006)


 * Incredibly Lame Pun: Martika tries to out-lame Sheila E. with Violince.
 * Self-Titled Album: This wasn't Prince's fault for once.