Ana María Martínez

Ana María Martínez is a Puerto-Rican/American soprano. She is the daughter of Puerto Rican opera singer Evangelína Colón and Cuban psychoanalyst Ángel Martínez. She briefly attended the Boston Conservatory before dropping out. She received her bachelor's degree and master's degree from Juliard School. Martínez won the Pepita Embil Award at the 1995 Operalia II, first prize in the 1994 Eleanor McCollum Auditions and Awards from Houston Grand Opera, and in the 1993 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions she was a first place district and first place regional winner and national finalist. During First Lady Nancy Reagan's funeral service, she performed "Ave Maria" and "Pie Jesu" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem.