Marti Perramon

It's the perfect time for Marti Perramon’s cheeky yet personal pop music. “I think people have had enough of everyman pop music. There’s this hunger for honest stories and things that feel real,” he explains, namechecking the likes of Role Model, Audrey Hobert, Remi Wolf and Bruno Mars. “The age of one-size- fits-all pop is over.” Just 21 years old, Marti has packed in more life experience than most in reaching that point. Now in South London, he was born in Barcelona and knew from an early age that he wanted to be on stage. Marti’s Mum loved traditional flamenco and his Dad was a jazz percussionist, though a childhood full of dance and theatre lessons later evolved into a genre-wide palette after finding a mixtape in the CD player of his family’s second-hand car. The tape introduced young Perramon to songs such as Amy Winehouse’s Stronger than Me’, and Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’. “After that,” Marti recalls, “I was obsessed.” Marti Perramon’s charismatic, confessional take on coming-of-age took shape after an unorthodox assimilation to British life. He moved to London when he was 9, and started school without being able to speak a word of English. “Being the foreign kid in class meant I always had this need to prove myself or be liked,” he explains. “Music was my way of being able to do that.” It wasn’t long before Marti discovered Oasis and fell in love with the world they built, and the sense of belonging a band offered; a feeling he wants to recreate with his fans today, having already amassed a small but mighty following over Zoom chats, fan hang-outs and that sense of community only authentic pop can summon.