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Martin Porter
Birth name	Martijn Hubertus Johannes Terporten
Born	(1983-10-13) October 13, 1983 Maasbree, Netherlands
Genres	Alternative Rock Pop Pop Rock Hard Rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Years active	1983–present
Labels	Jive Records, Sony BMG, Zomba Records, Retone Records
Website	www.martinporter.net, www.axportmusic.com

Martin Porter (born Martijn Hubertus Johannes Terporten on October 13, 1983) is an artist and songwriter who was the lead vocalist in Van Gunn (2004–2008), 7 Days' Wonder (2009), primarily known as a singer in K-otic (2001–2003) and currently active in Cap Roc.

Career

Porter grew up in Maasbree, The Netherlands

Growing up with music such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tom Petty and Thin Lizzy mainly caused by his parents' influence, and later, on the verge of the crossover from 80's Glamrock and 90's Grunge, getting a taste of those both worlds mainly through (according to his own biography) sneaking his way to his sisters' record shelf. Since all this music was in English at a young age he had developed an interest in lyrics and through reading lyrics at the same time learned his English. The singing has always been there for as long as he can remember but it was not until he decided to give a shot at writing his own songs when he actually started to use his voice extensively. And so together with his two best friends (brothers Boy and Ward Axe) who shared the same music interests he started his first band when he was at the age of 12.

In 2001 Martin was picked to join a TV show called Starmaker in the Netherlands which was a pioneer of reality talent shows, through the TV show he ended up in a pop group called K-otic. However since Martin has always listened to rock and hard rock, Martin has stated that being in this group felt unnatural for him and thus taking the first possible ticket out which because of contracts wasn't until their last performance on January 26, 2003.

In the meanwhile Martin always kept close ties with his original band Van Gunn, and they decided to move to Los Angeles to get more experience and to get on the road. In 2006 Van Gunn signed with Retone Records and recorded an album in Los Angeles which was to be their take off, however the band broke up due to differences in taste and how to move forward.

In 2008 Martin moved to Rotterdam to start a study at a University for Music but this wasn't really what he was looking for, according to Martin it did not feel right to go back to a textbook version of the music industry after years of experience of being in it. While studying at the University Martin formed a band called 7 Days' Wonder with whom he recorded a 5 song EP and toured in Japan and the Netherlands, in its short existence 7 Days' Wonder did not achieve any commercial success.

During this period in time Martin also decided to "simplify" his original Dutch name to stagename Martin Porter.

On the side Martin is said to have decided to also do his solo project in which he's aiming it to be a big mix of styles he's been involved in.

In September 2010 Martin moved back to Los Angeles.

Discography

• Van Gunn - Van Gunn (Retone Records 2007) Digital Only
• 7 Days' Wonder - Phenomena (Evil Distortion Records 2009) Digital Only

K-otic

Album title	Release date	Charting in the Dutch Album Top 100			Comments
		Date of entry	Highest	Weeks
Bulletproof	2001	02-06-2001	1(7wk)	32	Platina
Live and more	2001	11-08-2001	39	4	Live album / CD & DVD
Indestructible	2002	21-09-2002	2	16	Goud

External links

• Official Website
• Martin Porter's Facebook Page
• IMDB
• World Music Database
• K-otic Wikipedia (Dutch)
• K-otic Music Encyclopedia (Dutch)
• Discography K-otic