[Excerpt from an article on Martha Velez] Tampa Bay Times, by Michelle Miller
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humanin...-debut/2172787
Martha Velez has lived a storied life.
"I've been so, so blessed," she said.
Velez reflected on a career that has unfolded with a series of serendipitous turns — a folk singing stint with the Gaslight Singers in the mid 1960s, a stint in the Broadway musical Hair, a recording a blues-rock gig with then-session musicians Eric Clapton and
Christine McVie, and a handful of albums including Escape From Babylon produced by Bob Marley. She landed in Los Angeles after the release of her 1975 album, American Heartbeat, and ended up with a regular role on Falcon's Crest and a small part in the 1993 movie Father Hood starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry.