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During the 2000 explosion of Latin pop music, Martika re-emerged into the music world, singing backing vocals on various projects and contributing lyrics to releases by other artists, although she failed to grab any major-label attention for herself. Instead she built martika.net in 2001, a website for her fans, and released a remix of a newly self-recorded song called “The Journey”. She also recorded a track entitled Monday for a new solo album which the website stated was on its way. The Journey had 5,000 hits as a free download on mp3.coms music service. Eventually, however, her website was shut down, the album never materializing.

Martika appeared after teen girls like Tiffany and Debbie Gibson returned adolescent bubblegum to the pop charts. Martika was born as Marta Marrero in Whittier, CA, on May 18, 1969. Her parents were originally from Cuba; however, they left the country during a revolution. Raised in California, Martika started acting before launching a recording career, appearing in the film version of Annie in 1982 and on the TV series Kids Incorporated from 1984 to 1986. In 1988, her first single, “More Than You Know,” landed on the American charts; a year later, its follow-up, “Toy Soldiers,” was number one in the U.S. for two weeks. Martika’s self-titled debut album was also released in 1989. On her second LP, 1991′s Martika’s Kitchen, she received songwriting istance from Prince, to whom she was also briefly romantically linked. Martika also appeared on television in the cast of Wiseguy in 1990. In 2003 Martika joined forces with her husband, musician Michael Mozart, to form the band Oppera. Adopting a goth pop sound, she and Mozart released Opperas debut album Violince in 2004. That same year rapper Eminem used a sample of her biggest U.S. hit, Toy Soldiers, for Like Toy Soldiers, a track on his album Encore which entered the UK singles chart at Number 1. In response, Martikas UK Greatest Hits album was repackaged with its title altered to Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika. A biography was added to the album insert reflecting the new Eminem sample. Martika Has changed her name to Vida Edit, she and her husband have an independent series called J8ded coming fall of 2009. www.j8ded.com

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