Dan Martin Biography

Dan Martin and Michael Biello are the fathers of the newly born gay music scene and are responsible for many new artists coming to light in the community. Martin has written scores for films and videos, including Clones in Love, winner of the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival’s top prize for Best Short. His score for Lauren Malkasian’s video The Last Run is currently being aired on PBS, and his score for Jim Hubbard’s The Dance (which chronicles Martin and life-partner Michael Biello’s relationship) has screened at the Berlin Film Festival, MOMA, and festivals around the world. He has also written instrumental music for Hazelden Publishing’s Sound Recovery series of subliminal healing cassettes, and for Erospirit’s Sexual Environments series. Martin is the founder of OutMusic, the organization of lesbian and gay composers, lyricists, and musicians who produces the only annual festival of gay and lesbian music. He has brought to the stage numerous queer music theatre pieces with Biello, a performing visual artist and Martin’s lyricist.