Lena Martell, British singer has released in excess of thirty albums most of which have charted. She has fourteen gold discs
and two double platinum albums. Her hit TV show went out network in the late 70’s and early 80’s and won her many TV awards.
She had a 38% share viewing audience over a 10-year period, doing over 500 shows. In 2005 Sean Connery was interviewed on
STV during the Edinburgh festival where he said she is ‘the best singer I’ve ever heard, never sang a bond song I wonder why.
She is the singer’s singer, I’m talking about Lena Martell.

Lena had a No.1 hit with “one day at a time’ in 1979/80, it was entered into the Guinness book of world records in 1980. As the
fastest selling single by a female artist. It was No.1 in five countries in Europe. When she did the TV show ‘Top of the Pops’ in
Bremen ‘Top of the Pops’ Germany New Years Eve she played to one hundred and fifty million viewers broadcast around europe
to over 15 countries.   Also there were many top acts including Queen. Lena used to take her mother with her in those days to let
her share the experience of it all. When Lena went to find her mother after her performance she was in the artist’s canteen having
coffee with Freddie Mercury. Her mother said “what a lovely Boy he is, charming, and witty, He’s going to bring his own mother with
him next time”. Lena is in the same age group as Barbara Streisand and Tina turner who are still going strong too.

As a matter of fact at nineteen Lena was signed by film and Broadway producer Ray Stark to understudy Barbara Streisand in the hit
musical “funny Girl” running in Broad way in the mid 60’s. She was to play the role in London when it transferred. Unfortunately Lena developed nodules on her vocal chords and had to leave the show. She had them removed, was out of show business for a year and upon her return was asked through ray stark to appear with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and dean Martin at a benefit show in LasVegas. From there she toured with the US and the UK with Sammy Davis Jr, Lena was acting also in those days and one of her acting achievements was the part of the wife in ‘death of a salesman’.

She toured continually in concert and did some summer shows in Blackpool with Morecambe and Wise and Mat Monroe. She got her
TV break in the late 70’s staring in her own show, which ran for 10 years. She has been plagued by ill health through her career but
has always bounced back. In 1993 she left live performance to nurse and care for her mother whom had contracted Alzheimer’s (Dementia). Although she was still recording she remained by her mother for nine years until she passed away in 2001. Lena owns most of her master tracks, which is and was usual in those days (1984) to this day. In 2008 (March) Lena had open Heart surgery for a valve replacement; she has the aortic valve of a pig! She’s extremely grateful to both the surgeon (Mr Calhoun) the hospital and of course the little pig. She is now fit and ‘well’ and hopes to see you soon at one of her concerts