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6. ********WHAT???????????! - the song is not by him, it's by Columbian Marta GOMEZ?????!!!!!!
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 12:30 AM
Saturday

Can hardly wait for next Happy Hour to surprise whoever played AfriKanner. Will prolly be corrected whose song it is. This woman has Grammys (well, "Latin" ) and has collaborated with Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer, Mercedes Sosa, and Totó la Momposina??????!

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Overview
Marta Gómez is a Colombian singer-songwriter and two-time Latin Grammy winner. Her music blends Caribbean joy with Andean nostalgia, incorporating jazz and pop influences. Her songs address social issues across Europe and South America. Gómez graduated magna cum laude from Berklee College of Music with a Best Achievement Scholarship. She has performed with artists like Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer, Mercedes Sosa, and Totó la Momposina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_G%C3%B3mez#:~:text=Marta%20G%C3%B3mez%20is%20a%20Colombian%20singer%20and,cum%20laude%20from%20the%20Berklee%20College%20of
Marta Gómez
is a Colombian singer and songwriter. After obtaining a Best Achievement Scholarship, she graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music. She currently lives in Barcelona. Gómez and her group perform a large repertoire of songs with a mixture of rhythms that range from Latin jazz to folk Latin American music. They have shared the stage with well-known musicians from various countries around the world. She was nominated for the 2004 Latin Billboard Music Awards in the category "Latin Jazz Album of the Year".[1] In 2014, she won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Children's Album for Coloreando: Traditional Songs for Children in Spanish.[2] In 2014, Marta Gómez, seeing how the conflict between Israel and Palestine was escalating, composed the song Para la guerra nada, in 2017 Marta Gómez was invited to sing it at the world summit of the El Testigo on the work of Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado. By 2020, this song was turned into an illustrated book, in which the spirit of peace is the protagonist.[3]

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