| Background: | person |
| Maťo Ďurinda | |
| Birth Name: | Martin Ďurinda |
| Birth Date: | 1961 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Origin: | Czechoslovakia |
| Years Active: | 1985–present |
| Label: | EMI Czech Republic |
Martin "Maťo" Ďurinda (born 8 November 1961) is the vocalist and guitarist for the Slovak hard rock/heavy metal band Tublatanka. His hometown is Bratislava, Slovakia.
In his youth, Ďurinda had aspirations of becoming a hockey player while teaching himself to play guitar and piano. Martin learned to sing from his mother, who was a high school music teacher. Between 1977 and 1980, he was a member of the pop group Nervy. In 1982, he enrolled at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he majored in pharmacy. It was there that he met Juraj Černý and Pavol Horváth, and created the band Tublatanka.[1] Together with his band Tublatanka he represented Slovakia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 in Dublin with the song "Nekonečná pieseň".[2] Ďurinda has had a lengthy career with his band Tublatanka and they continue to perform to this day. He has also released a solo album, titled Perfektný svet (Perfect World), which came out in 1997.