Martin Thulin

Who is Martin Thulin?

Martin Johannes Thulin also known as Menonita Rock, is the lead singer of the Mexican musical group Los Fancy-Free.

Martin was born in the state of Chihuahua, in a Scandinavian Mennonite community called Nueva Escandinavia. When he was young, he was taken to Sweden by his parents, where he was raised. After finishing high school, Thulin returned to Mexico, but not to his native town, this time to Mexico City, where he formed the electropop - punk rock band, and has lived there ever since.

While living in Sweden as a teenager he played in several bands. Vampyres of Justice recorded a couple of demos between 1988-1990 of which some songs were produced by Ebbot Lundberg, leadsinger of the band Union Carbide Productions at the time. The band played noisy experimental rock belonging to the same scene as contemporary British bands like, Loop, My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3 or American bands like Sonic Youth, and Butthole Surfers, but always with a heavy dose of 60's psychedelic rock and krautrock.

In 1997 Martin Thulin recorded 3 songs with Emilio Acevedo from the Mexican band Titán from which the track "The Singer" was released in 1998 on a 7" EP on the Swedish label Labrador.