About
Pedro Luis Cardona Martinez, better known by his stage name Martyz El Legitimo is an American singer-songwriter with a Puerto Rican father and a Dominican mother. Martyz was born in the state of New Jersey, United States on December 12, 1990. In 1996 his parents settled in Puerto Rico where he had his educational and cultural training. From an early age Cardona had direct contact with music through his father, who was a salsa singer for various orchestras during the 1990s. In the same way, his mother, who would have a particular vocation for dancing, was instructing him in these skills. In this context, Martyz would spend his first years of life on the island. But it was in his adolescence when the reggaeton genre began to burst into the music scene of the island of enchantment where Martyz would find the right rhythm to express his artistic concerns. It is then that influenced by artists such as Daddy Yankee, Don Omar and Arcangel, he began to write his first songs. Being from a low-income family, Martyz begins to record some demos at home with precarious equipment. However, in the face of uncertainty in the country, he decided to dedicate himself to his studies as an English educator. After obtaining your university degree. Cardona takes up his artistic expression this time in a formal way. This is how, after having recorded several demos, he began to record with the producers Peter El de la Alta Jerarquía and Emil El Poderoso. In March 2020, he released his first single “Así Fue”, a song with which he officially debuted. After the reception that this song had, Martyz begins to negotiate its entry into the Latin American market, specifically in Colombia. However, due to inconveniences related to the COVID-19 pandemic, he is forced to postpone this artistic endeavor. However, in the midst of this preventive confinement, Cardona finds the perfect opportunity to compose material to be released on his first album, which will be produced by Peter El de la Alta Jerarquía. Martyz is currently based in Orlando, FL.