Martín Valverde (born January 19, 1963, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and composer of contemporary Catholic music who studied at the Conservatory of the University of Costa Rica and began his music ministry in 1981 after joining the Juventud Nueva ecumenical movement. After periods of work in Mexico with Proyecto SINE and Evangelización 2000, he moved to Guadalajara in 1989, and in 1991 he founded Producciones Dynamis, the base for a recording career that had already produced Esos Momentos (1987) and Los Viejos Amigos (1990), the release most closely associated with “Nadie Te Ama Como Yo.” In the late 1990s and early 2000s he expanded his catalogue with Rocksurrección (2000), Bella Dama (2001), which includes “Diario de María,” Concierto Para El Amor (2001), and Profeta (2002). In 1998 he also founded Red Magnificat, a network for Catholic musicians and promoters across the Americas, and in 2000 he sang in St. Peter’s Square during the canonization Mass of 27 Mexican saints. Later releases included Pablo íntimo (2008), Diosenchufado (2011), Pariendo (2015), Canciones Vivas 2 (2017), and Cuando el Amor Se Hace Canción (2020), which returned to “Diario de María,” while recent credits include the collaborative single “La Bendición - Unidos” (2020) and guest appearances on “Paradoja” with Mati Quintana and “Peregrinos De Esperanza.”
