Eric Lee Martin (born October 10, 1960, Long Island, New York) is an American rock singer/musician active throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s both as a solo artist and as a member of various bands. He earned his most prominent success as the frontman for the hard rock band Mr. Big, a supergroup (currently reunited) who scored a big hit in the early 1990s with %22To Be with You,%22 a song that Martin wrote during his teen years.A local of the San Francisco Bay Area, Martin first started his career in the music industry in 1978.