Martha Heredia Rivas (born February 1, 1991) also known as La Baby (''The Baby'') is a Dominican singer and winner of the fourth and last season of the singing competition television series ''

Latin American Idol ''Latin American Idol'' was the Hispanic American edition of the popular British franchise of '' Idols'', well known for its American version ''American Idol''. The show aimed to discover the pop idol of the Hispanic American region. The show was ...

History

Martha Roseli Heredia Rivas was born in

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, on February 4, 1991. She is the daughter of Felipe Heredia and Maritza Rivas. She started singing and writing songs at the age of fifteen and formed her first group called ''Una Vía'' singing hip hop,

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and other genres of urban music with her brother Luis Felipe. Heredia later had the opportunity of working in the

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where she created and wrote her own songs. Since her rise to fame after Latin American Idol, has become a successful artist working in the USA and in the

.Short biography of Martha Heredia
on an online blog

Latin American Idol

At 18, Heredia traveled to San José,

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to audition for the fourth season of

. She did well on her audition and later traveled to

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, where she was amongst the top performers of a Latin American Idol workshop. Her next challenge was to earn the most votes out of the 12 performers on the show. For two months, she was very successful and went all the way up to the final between her and Eduardo Aguirre of

, where she performed with

Franco de Vita Franco Atilio De Vita De Vito (born January 23, 1954, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan Latin Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter. His first album as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the C ...

. On December 10, 2009, after receiving more than 50% of the total number of votes, Martha Heredia became the new Latin American Idol.

Post Latin American Idol work

Heredia released her first single ''Música'' in January 2010 and was supposed to record her first studio album with Sony BMG, however, as of 2013 it was not produced and/or released.

References

External links

Latin American's Idol Official website
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