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Martha Emily Davis (born January 19, 1951) is an American rock and new wave singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California. She is most famous for being the lead singer of the band The Motels , but has also made several solo albums, contributed many songs to motion pictures, been on television, and worked onstage with Teatro ZinZanni .
The Motels featuring Martha Davis also appeared on the U.S. version of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time and toured the U.S. and Australia in 2007. [33] Martha Davis performed at Seattle's Teatro ZinZanni in 2005, [ 34 ] for which she collaborated with TZ Maestro Norm Durkee to make the special CD Omnium , which is available only through the Teatro ...
Anthologyland is a compilation album containing material from the new wave band, The Motels, plus work by Warfield Foxes (an earlier incarnation), and solo work by Martha Davis, including a couple of duets with Sly Stone and Ivan Neville.
The Last Few Beautiful Days is the ninth studio album by new wave band The Motels. Martha Davis's eldest daughter Maria inspired many of the songs on The Last Few Beautiful Days album, as she had died in 2016 after battling an opioid addiction.
Martha Davis stars in the vintage-style video as a socialite who is frequenting the bar at a posh hotel. Eventually, a once solitary Davis becomes overwhelmed by the jubilation of an increasingly unstable crowd. The video earned the award "Best Performance in a Music Video" at the American Music Awards. [6]
Motels is the first studio album by new wave band The Motels, recorded in the spring of 1979 and released in the fall. It was produced by John Carter. It was produced by John Carter. It peaked at #175 on Billboard 's album chart in December.
McGovern, Davis' boyfriend at the time, clashed with Garay in the studio, and ended up de facto producer and arranger for the album, which was titled Apocalypso. Martha Davis considers this period "the last time the Motels were uninhibited, wild, and not worried about our place on the charts." [2] [3]
This is the seventh studio album by the band The Motels, recorded with current touring band whom Martha Davis has been working with for a few years. When Matthew Morgan, a producer-engineer from Portland met up with The Motels , the resulting work became the new album, This .