Martin Nievera

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Martin Ramon Razon Nievera (born February 5, 1962) is a Filipino singer and television presenter.

Nievera has earned eighteen platinum, five double platinum, three triple platinum, and one quadruple platinum albums in his career spanning more than three decades.

He is often referred to in the Philippines as the "Concert King."

Early life

Martin Ramon Razon Nievera was born in Manila on February 5, 1962 to composer Bert Nievera and Conchita Razon. Victoria (nicknamed "Vicki"); a younger sister, Rachel; and several siblings from his parents' previous marriages. His father was a member of the Society of Seven, a Hawaii-based singing group. His mother separated with her first husband and brought the twins to Hawaii when they were three years old to live with Bert. He said he was regularly mocked by his peers because of his appearance and that "I wore a belt and shoes" so they assumed belt and shoes meant mayaman ka [you are wealthy]. If my lunch money is paid, I'd be beaten up for my lunch money, so Vicki, my twin sister, would shield me in school. Mas nabugbog ako [I was beating more] because na-defend ako ng babae [I was protected by a child]" the next day.

At an early age, Nievera began to enjoy music, particularly singing. The family spent the first year in Hawaii on the fifteenth floor of the Outrigger Hotel, and the young Nievera said, "I would watch him [his father] perform downstairs with the Society of Seven," and every night I would dream and imagine myself as one of the Society of Seven members, performing for large and small audiences. Nievera started playing as a burger flipper at a Hawaii restaurant owned by his family, or at another family-owned restaurant in Concord, California, where they would eventually move to), learning "how and when to belt and how to end the song in a big way." He was already performing in Society of Seven shows by the age of fourteen. "It all happened in the main showroom in that Outrigger Hotel," Nievera said in 2018. Possibly because it was where dad gave me my first set of wings, it has become a very sacred space for me."

The family immigrated to San Francisco Bay, California, in the 1970s. Nievera attended Clayton Valley High School in Concord, where he was a member of the basketball team. The school's wrestling coach encouraged him to join the choir, impressed by a recreation of Morris Albert's "Feelings" that Nievera performed while showering in the locker room. When he was sixteen, Bert argued that his son began to realize "he could sing professionally," he was the same age as him. Nievera also credits for his talent, Cebuana maternal grandmother Lourdes Corrales, a well-known mezzo-soprano opera singer and radio performer in the 1940s Philippines, in addition to his father, who has always favored his singing. Unlike his father Bert, Conchita's mother Conchita was against his idea, instead wishing him to become a surgeon or a lawyer. "She knew [his grandmother] and my father went through [show] business takes a lot out of you," Nievera said of him.

Nievera began competing in the 1981 California State Talent Competition in Santa Clara, where he captured it. He faced over four thousand others for "[f]our days long] because the first day was the first day to qualify for the third day. The third day was the championship, while the fourth day is a championship of all the champions of the various divisions. So I won the third day and then I took the overall grand champion." "It was a big moment in my life," Nievera recalled. "I knew I was going to be a singer right away." His winning work was "The Greatest Love of All," which his father taught him at the restaurant.

Nievera was chosen to appear with American singer Barry Manilow at his three-day concert in Concord Pavilion in c. 1980, c. 1982, singing back-up in a choir to the latter's "One Voice." "I'm gonna be a singer" after this experience, he said. Nievera's parents were having issues with their marriage at this time, when he was nineteen. Nievera resented this and attempted suicide. In a 2011 television interview with Boy Abunda, he remembered going to church and expressing his dissatisfaction with God, yelling, "What the hell is happening?"

What else can I do?"

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Career

Inspired by his father, Nievera returned to the Philippines in 1982 to begin his own singing career. By June 1983, he released his first LP, Martin...Take One. Nievera began co-hosting the TV variety show The Penthouse Live! with Pops Fernandez, who would later become his wife. Nievera's second LP was 1984's The Best Gift. In 1987, The Penthouse Live! was changed to Martin and Pops Twogether, in celebration of their marriage. His recording Forever led to two sequels, Forever Forever and Return to Forever.

As an actor, Nievera has appeared in eleven films, and seven television series and specials. Nievera's film credits include dramas, romance, science fiction, comedy and action. He also became one of the jocks at the now defunct radio station 101.1 Kiss FM in 1985, wherein he had his own radio show aired every Saturday afternoons.

He appeared with Hawaii's Society of Seven and Lani Misalucha at the Flamingo Las Vegas from February 13 to April 13, 2008. He performed a pre-Valentine/post-birthday concert with Pops Fernandez titled "Missing You" on February 6, 2009, at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. He co-hosts the weekly music show ASAP on ABS-CBN.

In July 2010, Nievera's album, As Always was released. In May 2011, his album, Himig ng Damdamin was launched and contains all of his covers. In March 2012, he was announced as one of the four celebrity judges of The X Factor Philippines, which aired on ABS-CBN by the second quarter of 2012.

In 2018, Nievera won the Myx Magna Award at the Myx Music Awards for his contributions to music as a singer and also for being a talk show host and comedian.

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