Qiana Martin
What does
soccer sound like
in America?
Vocalist · Songwriter · Storyteller
Interdisciplinary Soccer Artist
The American Soccer Songbook™
A new musical language for the world’s game.
Qiana Martin is building The American Soccer Songbook™—an expanding body of original music exploring soccer through Black American-rooted musical traditions.
Folk, blues, spirituals, jazz, spoken word and call-and-response meet the rituals, tensions, humor and collective memory of the game.
The first recorded chapter
Soccer Watch Night
The match begins long before kickoff.
A 30-track musical journey through anticipation, gathering, competition, reflection and celebration—told through original songs, spoken narrative and call-and-response.
Independently released 2026 · Submitted for GRAMMY® consideration in the Traditional Folk Album category.
Enter the musicBeyond the record
The songbook keeps growing.
Approximately 70 additional soccer-centered songs and spoken-word works are written but unrecorded. Some may become future recordings. Others may find their lives through commissions, performances, films, brands or cultural spaces.
Music + licensing →Beyond listening
The work leaves the recording.
A room learns a soccer song together. A museum uses music to unlock history. A festival audience becomes a temporary supporters’ section.
Qiana develops live performance, cultural programming, speaking and original commissions that bring the ideas inside the music into the room.
Explore live + cultural work →TEDx Speaker
•Original music selected by PayPal + BIC
•Cannes Global Pass Panelist
About Qiana
She didn’t study soccer culture from the sidelines.
From women’s club soccer in Rio de Janeiro to futsal in Portugal and footvolley in Colombia, Qiana’s relationship with the game became more than something she played. It became material.
Read her story →Licensing · Performance · Cultural Programming · Speaking · Commissions