Marti Pellow

Marti Pellow’s career began as a teenager when he formed a band with his school friends that became Wet Wet Wet. Even then, when a major record company offered them the top UK pop producers of the day, they insisted on going to Memphis, Tennessee, to find possibly the greatest R&B and soul producer of the 1970’s, Willie Mitchell, the man who’d produced Al Green, Ike & Tina Turner, Ann Peebles and Otis Reading.

It was this level of commitment and self-belief that saw Marti and Wet Wet Wet achieve more success than just about any other band at that time. It was also the years that greatly developed his song writing, schooled him in production and arranging, gave him huge stage confidence and style and the growth of arguably the greatest white soul voice in pop. During this time their song, Love Is All Around dominated UK charts for 15 consecutive weeks in 1994, standing as one of the longest consecutive Number 1 reigns in British chart history.

When the band went their separate ways for a while, Marti went back to where it had all begun, with Willie Mitchell in Memphis making his first solo album, the platinum selling album Smile. While there, he was honoured with the Keys to the City of Memphis, and even had the White House proclaim the 9th May - Marti Pellow Day in Memphis – honours shared by the likes of Nelson Mandella and BB King.

Whilst performing in a charity concert in 2002, Marti was approached by the American producers of the massive hit musical, Chicago, and invited to consider playing the lead role of Billy Flynn. He accepted the role and took the West End by storm. He went on to break box office records on a major national UK tour, then Japan and then the ultimate achievement for a musical theatre star – Broadway!

He then went on to play the role of The Arbiter in the sold out Royal Albert Hall performance of Chess. The shows were filmed and recorded by Warner Brothers for both an international cinema release as well as global TV, DVD and CD releases in 2009. The show starred a stellar cast of international theatre and recording artists including Josh Groban and Idina Menzel. Since then, he has performed onstage as Daryl Van Horne in Witches of Eastwick and Che in Adrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s, Evita.

Marti continued to release his own music alongside his theatre shows and remains dedicated to his song writing, to challenging what he has done before, to creating new music and to pushing the boundaries of what is expected, still hitting the road and performing to thousands, still recording and producing top ten records, still the utterly dedicated singer song-writer following his heart.

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