A biography for Marc Martelhasn’t been written yet.
“Queen had incredible songwriters.”
“I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.”
“Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.”
“That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.”
“People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'”
“I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.”
“Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.”
“I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.”
“Of course I always knew 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' and all those. But my real introduction to Queen the band and knowing who they were was the movie 'Wayne's World' like a lot of people in my generation.”
“Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.”
“I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the rest is history.”
“I liken the Queen thing to being in a worship service. Everyone comes having grown up with this music. It's in their blood, in their souls. Every night, it's always a huge standing ovation.”
“I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.”
“The Ultimate Queen Celebration is a little bit different. I take liberties with the amount of songs in the set that aren't necessarily Queen songs. I take some freedoms with The Ultimate Queen Celebration that I can't really do with The Queen Extravaganza.”
“Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.”
“My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.”
“No band has two hours' worth of greatest hits, but Queen comes close.”
“People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.”
“I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.”