Red Velvet Sounds is an ensemble created by founder and bandleader Gabriela Martina accompanied by outstanding musicians living in New England and New York. Originally from Luzern (Switzerland), Gabriela Martina has performed along the East Coast for more than nine years and developed a refreshing, entertaining and colorful language that speaks to your heart.
Red Velvet Sounds provides a wide variety of live music for weddings, corporate events, anniversaries and other celebrations. Our services range from solo pianist, guitarist, classical string trio or quartet, funk, top 40’s, DJ and more.
We hired Red Velvet Sounds for our company holiday party, and enjoyed working with them from start to finish. Great music and very professional.
I booked Red Velvet Sounds to play a work event and I could scarcely be more impressed. Gabriela and her band arrived early, set up unobtrusively, and played a menthol-cool, cosmopolitan mélange of traditional jazz and bossa nova. Delivered with style and substance, their performance made for an elegant and unforgettable evening.
Incredible band! They were so professional and added just the right vibe to our special event. Would definitely book again.
I hired Gabriela and her band to perform at my husband’s 50th birthday party. It was such an ease working with her from the start to the day of the party.
She always replied to my email inquiries quickly and professionally. I never had to worry once for planning.
They came to the site on time to setup and got ready quickly. And all the band members are friendly and very skilled on what they do!
All the guests loved the songs and music. They all said what a beautiful voice Gabriela has and I concur to that!
They helped making the whole evening a memorable celebration!
I would have her to perform at the future events in a heartbeat!
They made our Boxing Day party a great success. Picked their playlist perfectly and played with a lot of skill. Gabriela has a beautiful voice and great repertoire.
I've hired Gabriela and Red Velvet Sounds twice to provide jazz music at formal fundraising events. They are professional, easy to communicate with, and provide lovely music for cocktail receptions.
We had Gabriela come to an unusual situation - a Cheese Shop - to perform some Alpine yodelling, for our customers as they shopped.
Her communication was excellent beforehand, and during the performance her musical quality was exceptional, as was her interaction with customers, which made the afternoon very special for many people.
I couldn't be happier with the atmosphere she helped create!
We hired Red Velvet Gatsby band for our school Recital last weekend. It blew our mind off. The band was excellent and kept everyone entertained. They arrived on time and met our requests. Thank you Gabtriella.
I hired Gabriela and Red Velvet Sounds to perform at a museum fundraiser, and I couldn't have been happier! She has a beautiful voice, a top notch band, and great stage presence. Performing a wide range of jazz standards and some forgotten gems, our guests were thrilled. I highly recommend booking Red Velvet Sounds for your next event immediately!
Gabriela performed at a small corporate event I planned. The music selection was excellent and she is a beautiful singer. She was a joy to work with, and I highly recommend her to anyone!
We used Red Velvet Sounds for a corporate event and they did an amazing job!
Red Velvet was the perfect choice for entertainment for our corporate cocktail party. Smooth jazzy sounds, they look contemporary and cool, and were easy to work with. Highly recommended!
I hired Red Velvet Sounds to play at my wedding. I should explain. I'm a music snob and do not live in the area. So I scoured the internet to find the perfect band to perform for our big night. As you may know, the right band can really make the night special. Even though I'd never seen them perform, I was impressed with the videos, professionalism, and courteousness of Gabriela as soon as the process began.
The wedding was incredible. I had people in their 60's and people in their 20's telling me it was the best band they'd ever heard perform at a reception. As evidence of this, from the beginning of the set to the end, people were on the dance floor. During dinner, the music was soft enough to enjoy conversations with people at our tables. Afterwards, there wasn't a moment when the dance floor wasn't packed.
Red Velvet Sounds also paid attention to every song we listed ahead of time that we wanted to hear during our big night. They were incredible. And man could they Play!
All in all, I am so glad to have made the decision to book them. I fully endorse them to anyone else considering any event. They made a perfect day even better.
I recently used the services of Red Velvet Sounds for my 40th birthday. It was a backyard party, Gabriela and the rest of the group showed professionalism during the performance. Gabriela has a beautiful voice, and the musicians were incredible. I highly recommend Gabriela and her group!!
We hired Red Velvet Sounds jazz trio for our company annual meeting and they were great!! Such a great sound, very prompt in getting back to us, overall a great group to work with. We highly recommend them for any event or gathering!
I hired Red Velvet Sounds to provide the music for our gala dinner at the Museum of Science in Boston. Our audience was a diverse mix of people from 30 countries and they all appreciated the music played on the evening. I have to say that the band was very professional with fantastic communication throughout. They also were able to adjust the timing of their performance when we moved them forward by 30 minutes at the last minute. Thank you Gabriela and the rest of the band!
Red Velvet Sounds was fantastic to work with for our event. Communication is prompt, clear and very helpful and the performers were excellent. They were engaging during breaks, fun to work with and new just how to work the crowd!
I would definitely recommend Red Velvet Sounds to my colleagues and others looking for an affordable, professional, high-quality group!
The musicians were very talented, played lovely music.... when they were playing. They took many breaks that lasted 15-20 minutes and just played an iPod during that time. During these breaks we sometimes found them mingling in the party area, easily mistaken as guests instead of contract professionals working the event. I expected more for the amount we spent.
What an amazing night we had listening to the wonderful songs so elegantly played by the band and sung by this incredibly talented artist Gabriela Martina. I would recommend that you hire this band immediately for your event!!! I listened to many demo tracks from local arts for our corporate event in Boston and Gabriela and her band members stood out immediately. They were the perfect choice. Throughout my time dealing with Gabriela, her professionalism and response time were fantastic and was so easy to work with. Our guests were extremely complimentary of the band’s talent and song selection. This group has a bright future!
I hired the band recently for one of my corporate clients and they did a great job for me; Gabriela was easy to work with and kept in contact with me through the entire process! I would certainly hire them again!
My wife and I hired Red Velvet Sounds to play at our rehearsal dinner party the night before our wedding. My wife is Indian, I'm American. So the theme of our wedding weekend was a fusion of our two cultures. We approached Gabriela, the lead to Red Velvet Sounds, and asked if she'd be willing and able to play with someone that could do the traditional Indian music and sounds. She said she had a few friends she could reach out to. We were absolutely blown away with what she came up with! She found a young woman from Berkelee School of Music to sing the Indian songs and another man to play Indian drums. Not only did she find these people for us, they actually created original music to play together! All of our guests were absolutely blown away with the band, how well they played together, the Indian and American music, it all was so fantastic. We're so appreciative and would highly recommend them for any and all events! Gabriela was personable, easy to work with, very flexible, and extremely considerate. All in all, a great experience.
Garbiella came to the graveside service of my mother. Gabriella did a fantastic job. She projected her voice at the cemetery wonderfully and I got so many compliments on her. We all appreciated it so much and she was so nice!
Thank you Gabriella!
Garbiella came to the graveside service of my mother. Gabriella did a fantastic job. She projected her voice at the cemetery wonderfully and I got so many compliments on her. We all appreciated it so much and she was so nice!
Thank you Gabriella!
A fine match for our diverse crowd of 300 neighborhood residents, professionals and activists gathered in a big tent in the heart of Boston. People sat up front in the chairs nearest the stage and actively enjoyed the music, following the lyrics, the beat and the singer's sinuous moves. Comments from guests were uniformly enthusiastic.
When we needed a band for our event, Red Velvet Sounds responded within half an hour. Communication up to and through the night of the event was consistent, professional, and timely. The music was perfect, and everyone enjoyed dancing along to the music. Overall, it was a perfect night!
Red Velvet Sounds performed at my nonprofit organization's 10th anniversary last night. They were outstanding in every way, and exceeding the high expectations I had of them from their website and YouTube videos. Gabriela is an incredibly talented singer in addition to being a sophisticated and graceful presence, and her band is top notch. Their attire was classy and sophisticated, and Gabriela even changed outfits between their first set (we requested jazz standards for the cocktail hour) and second set (after our presentation of speeches and awards we requested they shifted into livelier dance music). I would recommend them completely for anyone booking anything from an intimate gathering to a corporate event to a large wedding. They have definitely become my go-to Boston-area band for future bookings.
I work for a Country Club in Sharon, Ma and we have had Red Velvet Sounds here twice. We hired them for our membership Valentine's Day Dinner in 2014, and we just knew we had to have them back this year!! RVS played the perfect sets of music while our guests were dining. Some of the guests couldn't resist getting out of their seats and dancing!! Everyone raved about the performance.
Gabriela is SO AWESOME to work with. She gets back to every email super quickly, and is so organized!! I felt so comfortable working with her, it made my job so much easier. Everything was so professional which is really important to the club, and I couldn't have been happier.
Hired Red Velvet Sounds for music for my nephews wake. I chose the songs and Gabriella sang them all. Fantastic, and very moving.
I would recommend Red Velvet Sounds to everyone! I had a New Year's Eve party and they made my party exceptionally wonderful. There were about 150 people that attended and they kept the crowd moving! Gabriela's voice is amazing and all the band members were also very professional and talented. I would hire them again for any event and would recommend you hiring them too!!
We recently booked RED VELVET SOUNDS since our friends highly recommended them! I then checked out their website and that left me with a very positive first impression. When I first listened to their audio samples, I immediately knew, Gabriela Martina is going to be the right person for our surprise. My parents LOVE this kind of music! When the four of us heard the Jazz duo by RED VELVET SOUNDS performing live, it sounded even better than we’d imagined! It was the absolute highlight during the 40th wedding anniversary of my parents and we only got extremely positive feedback from our guests. They left our party with Gabriela Martina’s gorgeous and soulful voice in their hearts. Not to leave out the virtuosic pianist Jiri Nedoma! From the booking communication, a smooth set up and payment it all went absolutely care free and uncomplicated in any way! They seem both very professional and kind people and musicians! Gabriela Martina, many thanks to you and your group and we all hope, that you’ll have a million more gigs with RED VELVET SOUNDS. Sing it girl!
By chance we had dinner at beat hotel in Boston and listened to the wonderful and expressive music of Gabriela Martina! We really enjoyed her music and would book her immediately if we did not have to go back to Europe! :-)
During the preparations for our wedding in 2012, we received recommendations about the beautiful and talented Jazz vocalist/songwriter, Gabriela Martina, from friends of ours. After a fantastic evening at a jazz club in New York and a short meeting with Gabriela Martina, our choice was made right then and there! We just wanted HER for this special day in our life!!! And it was definitively the right decision! Our song requests for the wedding ceremony such as our favorite love songs from stars like Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Bette Middler etc. were not a problem at all for Gabriela Martina and she adjusted her repertoire wonderfully and seemed very accommodating to our wishes. People sat with tearful eyes and deeply touched hearts during the whole ceremony. I will never forget this moment in my life. We asked RED VELVET SOUNDS to play some more smooth jazz, light swing music while our guests were having dinner and later for the party they came out with funky, groovy and soulful songs that fit perfect! They seemed very open and flexible in terms of music genre and cleary - we had a blast! Thanks RED VELVET SOUNDS for a very professional performance in any way and your wonderful voice, Gabriela Martina: you guys made our big day unforgettable for everyone!
RED VELVET SOUNDS is the way to go! We hired them to provide a jazz combo on our 60th birthday party and the music was phenomenal. They totally went out of their way to make sure we were happy with everything. I recommend RED VELVET SOUNDS for your next event ! Thanks for doing such a great job.
I was so happy that Gabriella was available to perform as a special guest at our company's celebration last summer, she really made it an unforgettable event.
Thru mutual friends, we heard nothing but good things about Red Velvet Sounds. We decided to book them for our wedding. The best idea ever! No regrets at all! In fact they were awesome and made our wedding unforgettable. Especially the lead singer Gabriela Martina with her outstanding voice made a lasting impression. We recommend Red Velvet Sounds for everyone and for every type of event.
After a long search for a suitable band for my birthday party, I was finally able to find: Red Velvet Sounds exceeded my expectations completely and just gave it all! It was a wonderful evening and many of my friends and invited guests were delighted with them. Can only recommend it and would like to thank again at this point for their efforts!
I have worked with Gabriela several times and it is always such a pleasure. She is a wonderful professional and the band is also phenomenal. It is always refreshing and inspiring to listen to and feel their energy, can't wait to experience it again!
We hired Gabriela & her trio for a private club event/party. They performed a live acoustic performance with nice funk, jazz and popular repertoire. We had a great night and some of our colleagues were asking about their performance schedule and facebook/web pages to follow them. That would be great to listen them again! Thank you so much Red Velvet Sounds! Greetings from Boston, MA.
I had the pleasure of hearing Gabriela play at Ryles a couple years back so was excited to find that she was booking for private parties. My boyfriend is quite a live music lover as well so we thrilled to have the opportunity to have Gabriela and her group play for my 60th birthday party in Hull. Her music versatility and skill level along with a pleasing stage presence and personality was one of the highlights of the party!
I'm a program specialist for a very exclusive retirement community in Dedham. I heard Gabriela singing as she was giving voice lessons to a child I knew and immediately wanted to hire her and her band to play at NewBridge on the Charles, which I did. Her music, voice and accompanying musicians were incredible and so well recieved by our residents. Gabriela is warm, engaging and has the voice of an angel!
"I hired Gabriela and her quartet to perform jazz standards at my mother's 50th birthday party. She was flexible and professional to work with and arrived early the day of the performance. All of our guests loved the music and I would definitely recommend them for a similar event!"
Price Range: Contact for rates
Gig Length: 60 - 360 minutes
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
Unions: Suisa
Red Velvet Sounds is an ensemble created by founder and bandleader Gabriela Martina accompanied by outstanding musicians living in New England and New York. Originally from Luzern (Switzerland), Gabriela Martina has performed along the East Coast for more than nine years and developed a refreshing, entertaining and colorful language that speaks to your heart.
Red Velvet Sounds provides a wide variety of live music for weddings, corporate events, anniversaries and other celebrations. Our services range from solo pianist, guitarist, classical string trio or quartet, funk, top 40’s, DJ and more.
Let yourself be inspired by the unique sounds, the on-stage interplay and refreshing performance of Red Velvet Sounds!
Gabriela Martina is a composer, arranger, and bandleader. Released in 2016 with a four-star review from DownBeat, her newest album, No White Shoes, represents a major step in the singer’s sojourn as a 21st-century musician. Martina had the opportunity to perform and collaborate with heavyweights like Meshell Ndegeocello, Jack DeJohnette, and Angelique Kidjo. She recorded with veteran drummer J.R. Robinson and was a semi-finalist in the Shure Voice Competition at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival, performing with guitarist Lee Ritenour’s band. Martina released a critically hailed EP in 2010, Curiosity, which included her original song “Ain’t Nobody,” a finalist in the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2012. She sings in four languages (German, English, French, and Spanish) and is currently performing with various groups up and down the East Coast. Martina owns her own booking agency called Red Velvet Sounds and is cofounder and curator of the In Momentum concert series.
Martina is a social activist who is passionate about learning more about other cultures, helping to develop a sense for community, and fighting inequality and racism. She is a strong advocate of causes that promote equal human rights independent of religious or political affiliations. From 2009 to 2010, Martina was the founder and president of the Cultural Leaders Club at Berklee College of Music, where students investigated causes and effects in terms of race, gender, and ethnicity issues. Sonic Relief, which Martina cofounded, was awarded the Berklee Urban Service Award 2016 for using music to aid people in need, such as organizing a humanitarian fundraising concert for Syrian refugees, featuring Simon Shaheen and the Lee Swensen Katz Trio in December 2015.
Depending on what you choose for your event (trio/quartet/quintet) it will change accordingly. Please get in touch with me by phone.
| July 27, 2019 • 6:00pm - 10:00pm | Birthday Party |
| November 28, 2015 • 1:30pm - 5:30pm | Anniversary Party |
| November 13, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | RED VELVET SOUNDS Duo & Quartet with TBA @ Private Charity Gala, 6-11pm, Manchester, NH |
| October 20, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | RED VELVET SOUNDS Quintet with TBA @ Private Corporate Reception, 7-9:30pm, Top of the Hub (Prude |
| October 10, 2015 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | RED VELVET SOUNDS Quartet with TBA @ Private wedding reception, 5-8pm, Lincoln, MA |
| April 25, 2015 • 6:00pm - 9:00pm | Birthday Party |
| April 07, 2015 • 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Corporate Event |
Our list is way longer than this. This is only an overview for you as the client to see in what genres we're comfortable with. Please contact us for any other song titles if you don't see them here.
Jazz
All Of Me (Swing)
Almost like being in love (Swing)
Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Swing)
Black Coffee (Blues)
Blue skies (Swing)
Body And Soul (Ballad)
Bye Bye Blackbird (Swing)
Cheek to Cheek (Swing)
Come Fly With Me (Swing)
Don’t get around much anymore (Swing)
Don’t know why (Norah Jones)
Early Autumn (Jazz Ballad)
Embraceable You (Ballad)
Exactly like you (Swing)
Feeling Good (Nina Simon)
Fever (Swing)
Fly Me To The Moon (Swing)
Georgia (Ballad)
Good Bless The Child (Billie Holiday)
I’m glad there is you (Ballad)
I get a kick out of you (Swing)
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (Ballad)
It ain’t necessarily so (Funky)
Just the way you look tonight (Frank Sinatra)
Lemon Drop (Swing)
Long John Blues (Blues)
Lollipops & Roses (Ballad)
Mack the knife (Swing)
Mercy Mercy Mercy (Funky)
Misty (Ballad)
Moments Notice (Swing)
Moondance (Swing)
My Funny Valentine (Ballad)
New York, New York (Swing)
Old Devil Moon (Swing)
One For My Baby (Ballad)
Orange Colored Sky (Swing)
Pure Imagination (Jamie Cullum, Fionna Apple)
Route 66 (Swing)
Send in the clowns (Ballad)
Smile (Ballad)
Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Ballad)
Stormy Monday (Blues)
The Lady Is A Tramp (Swing)
The Nearness Of You (Ballad)
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (Swing)
Things are looking up (Swing)
This Masquerade (Funky)
Unforgettable (Nat King Cole)
Wade in the water (Eva Cassidy)
Well you needn’t (Jazz)
What a wonderful world (Ballad)
Young at heart (Frank Sinatra)
You’ve changed (Ballad)
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French
Besame Mucho (Bolero in French)
La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf)
Mon Mec A Moi (Patricia Kaas)
Les Champs Elysees (Joe Dassin
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Latin
Besame Mucho (Bolero)
Desafinado (Bossa Nova)
How Insensitive (Bossa Nova)
La Samba (Samba)
Minha Saudade (Bossa in Portuguese)
Nica’s Dream (Latin)
One Note Samba (Samba)
The Boy From Ipanema (Bossa Nova)
The Look of love (Bossa)
Triste (Bossa Nova)
Volver (by Buika, Spanish)
Watch what happens (Bossa Nova)
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Pop/RnB
Angel (Sarah McLaughlin)
Aint’ no mountain high enough (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)
At last (Etta James)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Black Velvet (Alannah Myles)
Blurred lines (Robin Thicke)
Born to be wild (E, Steppenwolf)
Can’t take my eyes off of you (Frankie Valli)
Celebration (Kool and the gang)
Danza kuduro (Don Omar)
Don’t stop ‘til you get enough (Michael Jackson)
Don’t you worry about a thing (Stevie Wonder)
Eternal flame (Bangles)
Faith (George Michael)
Get lucky (Daft Punk)
Give it to me (Rick James)
Got to get you into my life (The Beatles)
Happy (Pharrell Williams)
Hound Dog (Elvis Presley)
I can’t help falling in love with you (Elvis Presley)
I want you back (Jackson Five)
If I ain’t got you (Alicia Keys)
I belong to you (Lenny Kravitz)
Imagine (John Lennon)
I’m yours (Jason Mraz)
I know him so well (Broadway Musical Chess)
In my life (The Beatles)
In Your Eyes (by Peter Gabriel)
I want you back (Jackson Five)
I wish (Stevie Wonder)
Just got paid (Johnny Kemp)
Ladies Night (Kool and the gang)
Lady (hear me tonight) (Modjo)
Last Dance (Donna Summer)
Living on a prayer (Bon Jovi)
Love don’ live here anymore (Rose
My first my last my everything (Barry White)
Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin)
One in a million (Larry Graham)
Old time rock and roll (Bob Seger)
Overjoyed (Stevie Wonder)
Proud Mary (Ike and Tina Turner)
Respect (Aretha Franklin)
September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Shake your body (Jackson Five)
Shout (The Isley Brothers)
Sing it back (Moloko)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder)
Someone like you (Adele)
Something (The Beatles)
Stand by me (Ben E. King)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
The Butt (EU)
The Rose (Bette Midler)
Thinking of you (Ed Sheeran)
This is how we do it (Montell Jordan)
Through the fire (Chaka Khan)
Twist & Shout (The Beatles)
Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars)
We are family (Sister Sledge)
Wise Up (Aimee Mann)
Wishing on a star (Rose Royce)
You are the best thing (Ray LaMontagne)
Gabriela Martina 2016. All rights reserved.
| Gabriela Martina | bandleader/vocalist |
| Jussi Reijonen | guitarist |
| Sam JC Lee | bassist |
| Maxim Lubarsky | pianist |
| Matthew Williams | drummer |
| Pedro Rivera | male singer |
For Jazz/Swing/Bossa Novas etc.:
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Antonio Carlos Jobim
For the Top 40's/Party/Upbeat Music:
The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Jason Mraz, Etta James, Rolling Stones, Christina Aguilera, Lenny Kravitz, Alicia Keys, Daft Punk, Aretha Franklin, Bon Jovi, Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Ed Sheehan, Bette Middler, Jackson Five, Rose Royce, Adele, Sister Sledge, The Isle Brothers, Chaka Khan, Ike and Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Modjo, Lenny Kravitz, George Michael, Elvis Presley, Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, Ray LaMontagne
French Songs:
Edith Piaf, Patricia Kaas, Joe Dassin
Latin/Bossas:
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elias Regina, Astrid Gertrud, Rosa Passos
water on stage
chair for pianist
Electricity Access
Electrical outlet (110V standard) within 20 feet of the band
- A flat floor or stage is a required for BOTH outdoor and indoor events. A cover must be provided for all outdoor events.
Outdoor events must provide a shaded area out of direct sunlight Power source and band must be off of wet/damp ground
A minimum performance area of 17 feet by 12 feet
Space to store instrument cases, gear etc. during performance
Meals will be provided for all band members
Parking will be provided for all band members
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