Martin Meredith
Saxophone / Keyboards

Martin Meredith was born January 4 1971, at the age of 13 acquired his first saxophone, which was kindly provided by Brian Travers. Martin continued to play throughout his schooling where he formed his own band that played many gigs around the Birmingham area.

After leaving school Martin continued playing and spent all of his time day and night practicing the saxophone, playing and recording with his band, he also started to play with other bands that toured around the country at club level. In 1990 Martin attended a music college called Accafess which was available to musicians who were unemployed, it was here that he realized that he wanted to play saxophone seriously as a career. 1993 Martin attended another college called Joseph Chamberlain where he studied composition, harmony and other aspects of music.

1996 Martin worked on various musical projects with Brian and it was this involvement which lead to the audition to play saxophone for UB40. Martin's first appearance with UB40 was on the "GUNS IN THE GHETTO" album.

Since then Martin has played saxophone with Tricky, Sly, Robbie and Gwen Dickie, and Chrissie Hynde, Martin has also appeared on numerous TV shows and videos with UB40.

Martin's most recent work was on the latest UB40 album "LABOUR OF LOVE III" which featured the top 10 hit "COME BACK DARLING". Martin has just finished his first ever world tour that took him to places like Columbia, USA, Australia, India, Japan, Brazil, Hawaii, Dubai, Guam, the U.K. and most of Europe.

Outside of UB40, Martin enjoys writing music for computer games and working with other singers and songwriters.

Martin has just finished working on some new and exciting projects with UB40, so keep checking the website to find out more.