Martina Stoessel

Biography of Martina Stoessel

Martina Alejandra Stoessel Muzlera, known as Tini, was born on March 21, 1997 in Buenos Aires. She is an Argentine actress, singer and dancer.

Tini is the daughter of producer and director Alejandro Stoessel, she has an older brother. She began taking piano lessons and did musical comedy and musical theater; she also took dance and singing lessons.

In 2007 she got a supporting role in the Argentine telenovela Patito Feo, in which she played Fito Bernardi's assistant. She became internationally known in 2012 with the leading role of Violetta Castillo in the Disney Channel series Violetta. She also sang the series' theme song, En mi mundo.

She received an award at Argentina's Kids' Choice Awards for her role. She also sang the song Tu resplandor for Disney in 2011. After the international success of the series, she shot the second season in 2013 and the third season in 2014. After 240 episodes, the telenovela ended in February 2015.

Between 2013 and 2014 she toured Latin America and later Europe together with the other Violetta performers. This resulted in the concert film Violetta – Live in Concert in 2014. In 2015 she went on tour again with some cast members. This took place in Europe and Latin America and was entitled Violetta LIVE.

For the Spanish-language and Italian versions of Frozen, she sang the song Libre soy and All'alba sorgerò, a version of the original Demi Lovato's Let It Go. Her biography Simplemente Tini (Simply Tini) was published in her native Argentina in 2014 and translated into several languages.

In 2015 she signed a record deal with Hollywood Records. The recordings for their debut album took place between January and March 2016 in Los Angeles. The album Tini was released in April 2016. The first single Siempre Brillarás, of which there is also an English version entitled Born to Shine, was released together with the music video in March 2016.

The debut album is also the soundtrack to the feature film Tini:Violetta's Future, in which she plays the leading role. A special edition of the album was released in October 2016. In 2017 she went through Europe and Latin America with her tour Got me started. In October of the same year, Te quiero más was released as the first single from their second album and in April 2018 Princesa. In October 2018 her second album Quiero volver was released and she went on tour again.