Jeff Martin (Canadian musician)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jeffrey Scott Brill |
| Born |
October 2, 1969 Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Rock, hard rock, world, blues, pop, folk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, sitar, sarod, oud, bouzouki, banjo, mandolin, synthesizer, piano, dumbek, hurdy-gurdy, theremin |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | Koch, Shock |
| Associated acts | The Tea Party, Jeff Martin 777, The Armada, Roy Harper |
| Website | jeffmartin |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson harp guitar, Fender Telecaster B-bender guitar, Ellis 7 string resonator guitar | |
Jeffrey Scott Martin (born October 2, 1969 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for fronting the rock band The Tea Party. Martin began his career as a solo artist in October 2005, when The Tea Party went on hiatus.
Martin began playing guitar as a child and in his adolescence played in bands The Shadows, Modern Movement and The Stickmen. In 1988, Jeff graduated from Sandwich Secondary School along with future Tea Party bandmates Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood. He went on to study music at the University of Windsor before leaving his studies prematurely due to philosophical differences with his music professor.
Martin has perfect pitch, as highlighted on "The Science of a Rock Concert", an episode of Daily Planet on Discovery Channel Canada.
Forming The Tea Party in 1990 after a marathon jam session at the Cherry Beach Rehearsal Studios in Toronto, Martin (a self-confessed "control freak") produced all of The Tea Party's albums, including their eponymous debut album in 1991, distributing it through the band's own label, Eternal Discs. In 1993 The Tea Party signed to EMI Music Canada and released their first major label recording entitled Splendor Solis. Martin employed open tunings to imitate Indian instruments such as the sitar, something he has continued to employ throughout his career. Further developing The Tea Party's sound in 1995, The Edges of Twilight was recorded with an array of Indian and Middle-eastern instrumentation while Martin drew lyrical inspiration from occult themes and pagan influenced literature.
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