“I’d grown up watching his career,” Martika says of Prince. That album, 1991’s Martika’s Kitchen, wound up having four songs written and produced by Prince. I went ‘Hey, I think I wanna do my life away from that world’.” All of that was confusing for a young mind. It’s not like you’re on the shelf for sale, but yet you’re made to feel like that. But we’re human beings, we’re not a can of soup. And that’s what it is, you’re an artist but you’re really a product.
Now, all these young acts know it’s a business, they know you’re a brand. I didn’t really have a business perspective. “It can be a little bit overwhelming to try and make everyone happy. It’s much better for your sanity and the human side of one’s self.
If all you ever do is talk about yourself what kind of person do you become? The pressures of the music industry, of that life, I backed away from that. “The music industry is extremely self indulgent and egocentric and narcissistic. “I just wanted to get out of the public eye,” Martika admits now. Martika is ready to return to the stage in 2016 after some time out.