| Biography: Artist Profile – Michael Marton
Hi, my name is Michael Marton and I’m an independent Canadian songwriter
My musical history is really pretty artisan in nature and until now have
kept it pretty much to myself waiting until I had the writing and songs
I felt could stand on their own.
I’ve played in several small bands over time but my main focus of
doing music is writing, producing and recording my own songs for my CD.
My main instrument is guitar, but I also noodle with the bass and percussion.
The style of my music? Well, people have told me they have a hard time
placing it in any “genre” which I consider a compliment and I've had 2 singles
off my CD Once Alive get adds on commercial HotAC radio across Canada and my
3rd single off the CD titled Dear Boy got airplay adds on Regular AC radio.
Comparisons I hear are anywhere from John Lennon to Green Day to U2 to the Doors
and even Johnny Cash, so I suppose you could tag it with alt/pop/rock as that
covers pretty much everything and suits me fine. My influences started with my
first Elvis record at age 5, The Beatles soon after and the dream began. I
listen to bands like U2 and Green Day, but it certainly doesn’t end there. I’m
not terribly partisan in my musical likes and I feel it’s extremely important
as a songwriter to be open to all musical influences, and I hope my songs reflect that.
I'm currently releasing my 3rd single "Dear Boy" to AC radio now and am excited
to have my 1st single "Off To War" getting airplay on HotAC stations across
Canada. My 2nd single Once Alive is also out on Canadian HotAC radio now as well.
That being said, I humbly offer you my first official CD release so once again,
thanks for stopping by and…
Thanks for listening.
Michael Marton.
Instrumentation
Michael Marton-Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums/Drum programming, string/pad programming, some piano.
Discography
1st CD out now called Once Alive available through my website
www.michaelmarton.ca
To date I have picked up radio play on the following Hot AC stations across Canada for my 1st single "Off To War":
CIFX (Lewisport NF & Labrador)-Add to Rotation
CKDH (Amherst, NS)-Add to Rotation
CFAN (Miramichi, NB)-Add to Rotation
CJCW (Sussex, NB)-Add to Rotation
CHIP (Fort Coulogne, QC)-Add to Rotation
CHOD (Cornwall, ON)-Add to Rotation
CINN (Hearst, ON)-Add to Rotation
CJAR (The Pas, MB)-Feature
CJNE (Nipawin, SK)-Add to Rotation
CKBF (Medicine Hat, AB)-Add to Rotation
CJAV (Port Alberni, BC)-Feature
CKLR (Courtenay, BC)-Feature
CHET (Chetwynd, BC)-Add to Rotation
Current stations playing my 2nd release Once Alive:
CHET (Chetwynd, BC)-Add to Rotation
CIFX (Lewisport NF & Labrador)- ADD (10-15x wkly)
CFWE (Edmonton, AB)- ADD
CFCH (Chase, BC)- ADD
CVUE (Sechelt, BC)- ADD
CJNE (Nipawin, SK)-Add to Rotation
CKRK (Kahnawake, QC)
CFBS (Medicine Hat, AB)
CHIP (Fort Colounge, QC)
Current stations playing my 3rd release Dear Boy:
CIFX (Lewisporte, NF & LAB)
CIMS (Balmoral, NB)
CHIP (Fort Coulonge, QC)
CHOD (Cornwall, ON)
CJNE (Nipawin, SK)
CVUE (Sechelt, BC)
CFCH (Chase, BC)
Contact Info:
Email:
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Web: www.michaelmarton.ca
All CD purchases and individual track purchases through Itunes and Puretracks, etc may
be accessed via the main page of the website
www.michaelmarton.ca
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For the initiated, the Canadian Rock scene has long included a tremendously varied array of sounds and styles, owing to the efforts that Canada has put into encouraging the independence and diversity of its musicians and musical styles. Consequently artists have come onto the world scene from Canada that may have not had the chance for similar exposure if they had originated in the stale corporate music culture of the United States. Unfortunately some of this has started to change in recent years as major record labels have made more inroads into Canadian Culture and found ways to subvert things such as the Canadian Content Rule. Nevertheless, there continues to be a diversity of sound and style in Canadian Musical Culture that is absent (or at least much harder to find south of the 54-40 (the line,
andthe band). 
