In the late ‘90s, he formed Christian rock band Downhere with Jason Germain, his roommate at Saskatchewan’s Briercrest Bible College.īetween 20, the group released six studio albums – four of which won Juno Awards. It wasn’t Martel’s first day at the races, though. In 2011, he was hand-picked by Queen’s Roger Taylor to front The Queen Extravaganza, a live production that toured around the world, after auditioning with a mind-blowing rendition of “Somebody To Love.” Martel was a natural choice to help bring Mercury’s iconic voice to the big screen. Martel can’t say much else about his work on Bohemian Rhapsody (his manager cited a non-disclosure agreement) but in an interview published in August, the singer said he spent a few weeks recording at London’s famous Abbey Road studio before filming even began. “I tried to see as little as possible while work was being done on the movie so that it could be mostly a surprise for me.” “Even I didn’t know beforehand where they were choosing to use me,” Martel told iHeartRadio.ca. For the film's performance sequences, the vocals are a blend of the late Freddie Mercury’s (using master recordings), Martel’s, and actor Rami Malek’s. Martel is heard, not seen, in Bohemian Rhapsody. “I was a very unique experience for me as far as not being able to just sit and enjoy it like I would enjoy a movie that I’m not in,” the Montreal-born singer said Tuesday. 1 at the box office last weekend – but no one has experienced it quite like Marc Martel. Audiences in cinemas around the world are watching the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody – it debuted at No.
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