Blurred Lines music video director Diane Martel who also worked with JLo, Mariah and Miley dies at 63
Blurred Lines music video director Diane Martel has died at the age of 63 in New York.
The artist had been battling breast cancer.
Her family said she died on Thursday surrounded by her family at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, according to Rolling Stone.
Martel was best known for directing the Robin Thicke video Blurred Lines featuring T.I. and Pharrell, and starring model Emily Ratajkowski.
But she also worked with such big name artists as Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Sting, Pink and Alicia Keys.
Martel was close to Miley Cyrus and directed many of her music videos such as We Can’t Stop, Malibu and Younger Now.
Music video director Diane Martel has died at the age of 63 in New York. The artist had been battling breast cancer
Martel was best known for directing the Robin Thicke video Blurred Lines featuring T.I. and Pharrell, and starring model Emily Ratajkowski
Martel was also the director behind Mariah Carey’s video for her smash hit 1994 track All I Want for Christmas Is You.
The director also worked on Carey’s videos for Miss You Most (At Christmas Time), The Roof and Breakdown.
Martel was behind Avril Lavigne’s Nobody’s Home. The last music video she directed was in 2023 for the Alicia Keys tune Lifeline.
The Jennifer Lopez videos she worked on were for Hold You Down and the Get Right remix.
The New York City native also worked as a choreographer on Bloodhounds Of Broadway and REM’s Shiny Happy People.
Martel worked on the documentaries House of Tres about voguing in the New York ballroom scene, which came out in 1990.
And she had a hand in 1992’s Reckin’ Shop: Live From Brooklyn, PBS documentary about hip-hop dancers in Brooklyn.
Martel was born in New York City on May 7, 1962. Her uncle was theatre producer and director Joseph Papp.
She worked with Miley Cyrus on the music videos for We Can’t Stop, Malibu and Younger Now
Jennifer Lopez, Fat Joe and Martel during a shoot for Hold You Down in NYC
Martel was also the director behind Mariah Carey’s video for her smash hit 1994 track All I Want for Christmas Is You
(L-R) Singer/songwriters BORNS, Pia Mia, Martel, singer/songwriter Gavin James, Media Executive Kelly Covell and stylist Brandy St. John in 2015
He was known for creating Shakespeare in the Park, which aimed to make classical theater accessible to all people.
Papp also established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan.
Martel began her career as a street artist.
Her first film-based projects in the early 1990s were dance-focused documentaries funded by the National Endowment for the Arts aired on the Public Broadcasting Service.
