Martin Benedict Volpeliere-Pierrot (born 19 May 1965) is an English singer best known as the vocalist from the band Curiosity Killed the Cat.

[2] He attended Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, which he credited in a 1987 interview with giving him "real hope"[3] through the education he received.

In the mid-1980s he appeared as a model[4] on the front of Mike Read's Pop Quiz board game (made by Waddingtons in 1985) and formed the band Curiosity Killed the Cat.

Curiosity Killed the Cat were a pop band formed in 1984 which had several hit singles in the UK.

Their 1989 hit "Name and Number" has been sampled and remixed several times, including a version credited to Elements vs Ben VP[6] in 2006.