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.
Marti Perramon introduced himself with 2025’s EP, A Brief Note That Ended Up Being About You. Here,
he “discovered how much more fun it was to be honest and write songs like I was talking to a friend”, with
suitably transatlantic stylistic touchstones ranging from Dominic Fike to Omar Apollo. Restless in sound
and mood, Marti explores those ups and downs of teenage life with as much bravado as soul-baring:
where young love (‘Gold Smile’), trust issues (‘Truck’), putting yourself second (‘Good Life’) and those
formative heartbreaks collide, but result in an artistic and emotional catharsis. The EP ultimately
embraced the importance of sitting with these experiences, and owning them - a confessional note to
someone else, which might in fact say more about you.
Marti Perramon has since firmly cemented himself as a One to Watch, with sold-out headline shows,
support across Radio 1, his inaugural festivals like The Great Escape, plus a breakout tour with global
superstar Alessia Cara around Europe earlier this year. “Was I nervous about performing in front of 1000
people? Absolutely not. I was just hungry to get out onstage, have fun and win every single person over,”
he grins.
It’s this intent - and increased sense of self - that informs Marti Perramon’s titular new EP, Boy From
Barcelona, Baby: a lyric lifted from the project, and encapsulating Marti’s story with tongue firmly in
cheek. Road-tested live on the road with Alessia, first single ‘Sugar (Honey, Ice, Tea)’ is a carefree blast of
elastic funk, bedroom pop, and the urge to leave your inhibitions indoors. Its infectious, spontaneous spirit
was fittingly created by Marti and his housemate Woody in just a couple of hours, and describes “falling
for an ex. It embraces my excited and at times reckless self, which is something I haven’t really done
before with my music.”
Sugar (Honey Ice Tea)’ is a fitting flavour for what’s ahead: here are songs as charismatic and hooky as
they are full of substance, and surprising notes. Marti started writing Boy From Barcelona, Baby after a
breakup, with the EP chronicling that doomed path of initially trying to find yourself in other people.‘Mutual’ is a slow-jam about closure that collides a rap verse with an anthemic, upbeat chorus. ‘All My
Life’, for instance, bounces between post-heartbreak escapism and being enthralled by someone new,
who actually isn’t ready for a relationship either. ‘Peace Sign’ is the cringey feeling of trying to act causal
around a crush, whilst ‘Sellotape’ embraces being a hopeless romantic even against the impossibility of
them living on the other side of the world. The EP is the sound of coming out the other side, rediscovering
yourself (and your confidence) - Boy From Barcelona, Baby, and at peace with all that entails.
Today, Marti Perramon marries that hyper-sensitivity of his outsider-upbringing with borderless
musicality. A feel-good but often in-your-feels mix, traversing elements of alt-pop, R&B, and hip-hop (self-
described as ‘wonky pop’) it’s work still made with mates in South London but has also come to life amidst
writing sessions in LA. And as a born performer already performing to screaming girls, Marti Perramon’s
appeal, and ambition, are more unapologetic than ever. “Music was always how I connected to people,
how I explained myself when I was a kid, and it’s always brought me so much joy - why wouldn’t I want to
provide that for other people? The reason I love pop music is because it makes you feel good, and I want
to be shameless about that. Let’s be honest, a little more joy would make the world a better place,
wouldn’t it?” A Boy From Barcelona, but with his sights set as the next, British male pop star.
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.
Marti Perramon introduced himself with 2025’s EP, A Brief Note That Ended Up Being About You. Here,
he “discovered how much more fun it was to be honest and write songs like I was talking to a friend”, with
suitably transatlantic stylistic touchstones ranging from Dominic Fike to Omar Apollo. Restless in sound
and mood, Marti explores those ups and downs of teenage life with as much bravado as soul-baring:
where young love (‘Gold Smile’), trust issues (‘Truck’), putting yourself second (‘Good Life’) and those
formative heartbreaks collide, but result in an artistic and emotional catharsis. The EP ultimately
embraced the importance of sitting with these experiences, and owning them - a confessional note to
someone else, which might in fact say more about you.
Marti Perramon has since firmly cemented himself as a One to Watch, with sold-out headline shows,
support across Radio 1, his inaugural festivals like The Great Escape, plus a breakout tour with global
superstar Alessia Cara around Europe earlier this year. “Was I nervous about performing in front of 1000
people? Absolutely not. I was just hungry to get out onstage, have fun and win every single person over,”
he grins.
It’s this intent - and increased sense of self - that informs Marti Perramon’s titular new EP, Boy From
Barcelona, Baby: a lyric lifted from the project, and encapsulating Marti’s story with tongue firmly in
cheek. Road-tested live on the road with Alessia, first single ‘Sugar (Honey, Ice, Tea)’ is a carefree blast of
elastic funk, bedroom pop, and the urge to leave your inhibitions indoors. Its infectious, spontaneous spirit
was fittingly created by Marti and his housemate Woody in just a couple of hours, and describes “falling
for an ex. It embraces my excited and at times reckless self, which is something I haven’t really done
before with my music.”
Sugar (Honey Ice Tea)’ is a fitting flavour for what’s ahead: here are songs as charismatic and hooky as
they are full of substance, and surprising notes. Marti started writing Boy From Barcelona, Baby after a
breakup, with the EP chronicling that doomed path of initially trying to find yourself in other people.‘Mutual’ is a slow-jam about closure that collides a rap verse with an anthemic, upbeat chorus. ‘All My
Life’, for instance, bounces between post-heartbreak escapism and being enthralled by someone new,
who actually isn’t ready for a relationship either. ‘Peace Sign’ is the cringey feeling of trying to act causal
around a crush, whilst ‘Sellotape’ embraces being a hopeless romantic even against the impossibility of
them living on the other side of the world. The EP is the sound of coming out the other side, rediscovering
yourself (and your confidence) - Boy From Barcelona, Baby, and at peace with all that entails.
Today, Marti Perramon marries that hyper-sensitivity of his outsider-upbringing with borderless
musicality. A feel-good but often in-your-feels mix, traversing elements of alt-pop, R&B, and hip-hop (self-
described as ‘wonky pop’) it’s work still made with mates in South London but has also come to life amidst
writing sessions in LA. And as a born performer already performing to screaming girls, Marti Perramon’s
appeal, and ambition, are more unapologetic than ever. “Music was always how I connected to people,
how I explained myself when I was a kid, and it’s always brought me so much joy - why wouldn’t I want to
provide that for other people? The reason I love pop music is because it makes you feel good, and I want
to be shameless about that. Let’s be honest, a little more joy would make the world a better place,
wouldn’t it?” A Boy From Barcelona, but with his sights set as the next, British male pop star.
