Martin Ross

Bio

Martin Ross was born on June 12, in Tacoma, WA. The son of dancers, Martin & Helen Baespflug started him down the music path at the young age of 3 with classical piano lessons. By age 8 Martin was training in piano, French horn and ballet privately at both University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University. This rigorous training continued through his teens. From there it was music and entertaining for life. Martin has been a career musician since he was 17, playing locally, nationally and internationally; whether it be fronting a hometown band, laying it out on the keys solo or leading a 12-piece orchestra, he’ll be sure to entertain!

Longtime Northwest Entertainer-Singer-Songwriter-Pianist Martin Ross performed from the late 80's to the early 00's, as the House Piano Man at the iconic "Cloud Room," in The Camlin Hotel, a downtown Seattle Landmark. The Cloud Room closed its doors and Martin became the resident entertainer at Daniel's Broiler in Lake Union, Seattle, & Bellevue, WA. After Daniel’s, Martin worked for 3 years internationally, touring between Dubai, Seoul, British Virgin Islands and Barbados. Next returning stateside via Palm Springs, and Naples, FL and he eventually returning home to Seattle where you will now find him at El Gaucho downtown.

His development in the field of music and entertainment has led him around the world as a solo act and as the leader of several groups, touring such places as the U.K., Hong Kong, Thailand, the Caribbean, Norway and the better part of the US and Canada.

Martin has had the privilege of sharing the stage (as an opener, musician orlead singer) with the likes of Paul Revere & The Raiders, James Brown Band, Bonnie Raitt, Edgar Winter, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, Sha Na Na, The Spinners, Peter Noon, Gary Lewis, Gary Puckett, Little Richard, Clint Black, LeAnn Rimes, & Dick Clark, to name a few.