Marissa Martinez
{{Short description|American musician (born 1975)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Marissa Martinez
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|July|13}}
|genre = {{flatlist|
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|occupation = {{flatlist|
- Musician
- Songwriter
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|instrument = {{flatlist|
- Vocals
- guitar
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|years_active = 1992-present
|current_member_of = Cretin (band)
|past_member_of = Repulsion
}}
Marissa Martinez-Hoadley (born July 13, 1975) is an American guitarist and singer. She is the frontwoman and guitarist of the grindcore band Cretin.
Martinez publicly came out a trans woman in a July 2008 interview with Decibel.{{cite magazine |last=Parks|first=Andrew|date=July 2008|title=Daddy's Little Girl|url=http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=103016|magazine=Decibel|issue=43|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125140634/http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=103016]|archive-date=25 November 2009|access-date=24 May 2024}}
Early life
Career
Martinez became interested in using extreme vocals at the age of 17. One day, she approached a skateboarding peer of hers who played drums and asked him if he wanted to jam. After the jam, Martinez formed Cretin.{{Cite web|url=https://eternal-terror.com/2014/11/28/marissa-martinez-cretin/|title=Marissa Martinez (Cretin)|last=Grand|first=Rune|date=28 November 2014|website=Eternal Terror|access-date=24 May 2024|archive-date=May 24, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524072419/https://eternal-terror.com/2014/11/28/marissa-martinez-cretin/|url-status=live}}
Personal life
Martinez began transitioning in 2007 and publicly came out in 2008. She had an ex-wife who she divorced after coming out, though she has stated that her ex-wife was very supportive of her.{{cite book|last=Clifford-Napoleone|first=Amber R.|date=1 April 2015|title=Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent|publication-place=New York|publisher=Routledge|page=103|isbn=978-1-315-85172-3|doi=10.4324/9781315851723|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dnSswEACAAJ|access-date=25 May 2024|edition=1st|chapter=Chapter 4: Everybody Knows|archive-date=May 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525001455/https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/Queerness_in_Heavy_Metal_Music.html?id=1dnSswEACAAJ&redir_esc=y|url-status=live}}
Discography
=With Cretin=
- Extreme Cretanic Grindcore (2003)
- Cretanic Grind Ambush (2004)
- Freakery (2006)
- Stranger (2014)
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Category:20th-century American women guitarists
Category:20th-century American women singers
Category:21st-century American women guitarists
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Category:American LGBTQ singers
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Category:American death metal musicians
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