Swimmingpod

Swimming, Water and Music, with Romy Martinez

June 26, 2026·32 min
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Dr Romy Martinez is a Paraguayan singer, researcher, and ethnomusicologist, with two award-winning albums with the Purahéi Trio, including Songs by the Riverbanks, inspired by river landscapes and cultural exchange between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. She received the 2025 Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation Research Grant for Guaranía in Translation, promoting Paraguayan music in Europe. She is the first Paraguayan woman in ethnomusicology, and is a postdoctoral researcher in cultural diplomacy at Leiden University College, Netherlands. She is passionate about swimming. In this podcast we discuss how her music and research flow together, and how swimming shapes everything she does.

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