ROGER TAYLOR & MARC MARTEL INTERVIEW CBC NEWS

Queen Extravaganza Contestant interview CBC News.
VOCALS - Jennifer Espinoza(San Antonio, TX)
VOCALS - Marc Martel (Montreal,
QC / Nashville,TN)
GUITAR - Tristan Avakian(Toronto, ON)
GUITAR - Brian Gresh
(Tulsa, OK)
DRUMS - Tyler Warren
(Camden, TN)
BASS - Francois-Olivier Doyon
(Quebec City, QC)

[@alexandra-fu7oq]

Marc has formed his own band called The Ultimate Queen Celebration. I saw them live in 2019 and was blown away. Marc is incredible live.

[@debradonato7363]

Marc sounds ALOT
Like Freddie
♥️🌟💙👑👑👑👑

[@amirasou1738]

Marc martel is great

[@uNkLeRaRa4]

Freddie's been reincarnated as a Canadian!!

[@francescofazio3518]

I think Marc Martel is one of those music geniuses that comes every hundred years. 1900-2000 Freddie Mercury. 2000 to go .. Marc Martel :)

[@madeinedmundston]

HE IS FROM MONTREAL!
"Marc Martel was born November 16th, 1976, in Montreal, Canada. His parents instilled a love for music in him that followed him throughout his childhood, through eight years of piano lessons, through Disney duets he would sing with friends, through hours he spent alone teaching himself guitar, all the way to a small college in Saskatchewan, where he formed the band Downhere with his roommate Jason Germain and a few close friends in 1999."
Ref :marcmartelmusic.c o m

[@rmsturge]

He's from Montreal, but currently is living in the Nashville area.

[@SWATPhantom]

Look at the description. He's born in Montreal but he now resides in Nashville

[@Kuzzowy]

Martel verry verry good!

[@MsFreddieFreddie]

Can't wait! Hope Toronto makes the tour map!!! Fingers crossed....

[@88purplekiss]

Woohoo awesome I wish they'd stop talking when he's singing "We Are the Champions"!!

[@hitcan79]

thats also why Freddy wasnt their singer at the start before queen also, its like lightening had to strike 4 times right in a row

[@TOBI10795]

Marc Martel lives in Montreal ?? didnt know that

[@checkzombie4024]

He looks like Freddie with a bit of body fat

[@edgilsonrodrigues8609]

Bacana, Rock para sempre.

[@ammaretto]

CANADA ROCKS!!~~~

[@Griwhoolda]

"tends towards the cheesy..." :D

[@dmc16336]

What are you talking about?!? Roger Taylor isn't in the contest!!! Do you even KNOW who Roger Taylor is?!? When has Roger (Who was in... wait for it... QUEEN) ever tried to be Freddie?!?

[@WoofWoof2012]

Well, why didn't Gary Mullen try out for this?

[@BluebirdintheSky]

@MsFreddieFreddie You do realise it's only a tribute band, don't you? Brian and Roger aren't going to be playing.

[@littlexlocox3397]

thats bull why not marc

[@jordimelivilu6485]

Hace 5 años :v

[@jasonroberts9788]

so I went and googled this Gary Mullins guy.... Uh NO. He's got a thick scottish accent, he only slightly sounds like Freddie when he's belting out a hard note, cant sing softer notes, he's geeky and scrawny, and balding... And dont get me started on the cheesy attempts to mimic Mercury's strutting and stage movements.

[@littlexlocox3397]

you had to chose another gutar person let me guees they are going to have 6 gutar people and make it sound like some one is talking

[@ninman58]

I really don't understand the point of this. Anybody can play a queen song, it's really not that hard, you just learn the tune, practise it a lot and you can do it. The thing that's difficult is writing the music itself from scratch, doing something that's unique, popular and above all sounds great. That's why bands like Queen are still popular today, not just because they were great musicians, but because they were great song writers and had a unique sound.

[@kevinmorrice]

you obviously dont know who freddie mercury is

[@francescofazio3518]

@@kevinmorrice totally agree with you. The shame of the internet is that it allows people with a complete 0 knowledge to vomit out their own opinions :(

[@H.yeon_su]

More the reason they were great musicians since they had a unique style of their own and they were great songwriters, you kinda contradicted your own point

[@dogroferifno]

@BluebirdintheSky I do not agree, Gary is very good, but seems to have more of an Opera background and His voice is deeper. He is very Good, but his backing band completely sucks in comparison to the Original.

[@YarielaJM]

i want to marry Roger Taylor

[@fidaphil24]

Does he died? :(

[@winnetouch]

Because he'd loose...

[@gbisaga]

Maybe he did, and he lost.

[@BluebirdintheSky]

Gary Mullen wipes the floor with Martel as a Freddie impersonator.

[@alexdavis6578]

BluebirdintheSky 👏🏽MARC 👏🏽 MARTEL 👏🏽IS👏🏽NOT👏🏽AN👏🏽IMPERSONATOR👏🏽

[@tenzinwangchuk3119]

Gary try’s hard to sound like Freddie while Marc just sounds like Freddie effortlessly

[@p.p3152]

@@tenzinwangchuk3119 I couldn’t agree more, plus Marc sounds like Freddie across his entire career but Gary sounds kinda elderly