Gruff Rhys

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gruff Rhys
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 18, 1970(1970-07-18)
Age	54
Birthplace	Haverfordwest
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Wales
Horoscope	Cancer

Gruff Rhys Biography

Gruff Rhys is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on July 18, 1970 in Haverfordwest, Wales, United Kingdom. Welsh singer, drummer as well as guitarist, who played in various groups that include Ffa Coffi Pawb and Super Furry Animals. The album was released by American Interior in 2014.

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Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡrɨ̞fɨ̞ð maˈrɛdɨ̞ð ˈbowɛn ˈr̥ɨːs] ; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize. He won the 2011 Welsh Music Prize for his album Hotel Shampoo, which was followed up by American Interior in 2014, accompanied by a film, a book and a mobile app. His most recent albums Babelsberg and Pang were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He is considered a figurehead of the era known as Cool Cymru.

As a teenager in 1985, Gruff Rhys played drums for the North Wales band, Machlud, appearing at the Pesda Roc festival in Bethesda. After playing drums for the band Emily, Rhys found fame in Wales as the front man of Ffa Coffi Pawb. Translated, the name means ‘everyone’s coffee beans’, though if said quickly in Welsh, it can sound like ‘fuck off everyone’ in English and Welsh combined.

Its full surname is Gruffydd Mareduddd Bowen Rhys and he hails born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. There is a younger brother as well as one sister.

Gruff Rhys Net Worth

Gruff Rhys is one of the richest Pop Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gruff Rhys 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a drummer for Machlud the group that hails from North Wales, when he was in his teens.

The first album he released as a solo artist, Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, was released in the year 2005.

Rhys was born 18 July 1970 in Haverfordwest, Wales. He has a brother and a sister; his father was Ioan Bowen Rees (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999), a “poet, essayist, polemicist, mountaineer, internationalist … and a White Robe Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards”. Bowen Rees “campaigned all his life for Welsh rights, language and culture” although he did not believe in the narrow view of nationalism, glorifying one country over another, rather that the “battle for Wales is the battle for all small nations, all small communities, all individuals in the age of genocide”. Rhys’s mother, Margaret Wynn Meredith, shared his father’s love of writing and was a poet.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Gruff Rhys Dating?

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He formed ieie Productions with his partner Catryn Ramasut in 2006 to produce film and television projects.

Facts & Trivia

Gruff Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gruff Rhys celebrates birthday on July 18 of every year.

Rhys has occasionally collaborated with other artists, providing vocals for the track “Dial: Revenge” on the Mogwai album Rock Action as well as guesting on the songs “Fear of Guitars” (from the album Machine Says Yes by FC Kahuna) and “Do’s and Don’ts” (by Boom Bip) as well as “Just War” from Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s album Dark Night of the Soul. He has also featured on the Myspace remix track “I’m Not Lying” by Goldie Lookin’ Chain. He features on the track “Cream Dream” from the 2009 Simian Mobile Disco album Temporary Pleasure. He also eats carrots on the Misty’s Big Adventure album Television’s People, continuing the vegetable relay started by Brian Wilson on Smile. Miles Kane has also called for him to produce the next album by his band the Rascals. Rhys also collaborated with influential hip-hop group De La Soul on a Gorillaz track titled Superfast Jellyfish. The track is on the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach, and provided vocals on the song “We Won’t be Broke Forever Baby” on Akira the Don’s LP The Life Equation.

Is Gruff Rhys lefthanded?

Rhys plays the guitar in an unusual style. Although he is right-handed , he learned to play left-handed on his brother’s left-handed guitar.

Where are Super Furry Animals from?

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Why did Super Furry Animals break up?

Sources close to the band said they had decided to split after a number of revelations about the state of their finances , and Llwyd confirmed a meeting had taken place in which money matters were discussed. The Welsh band formed in Cardiff in 1993 and achieved mainstream success in the 1990s.

What band was Gruff Rhys in?

Music groups

How did Super Furry Animals get their name?

The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music (and art, and literature) in the 1990s: other Welsh bands of the time include the Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Catatonia and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. The name of the band came from T-shirts being printed by Rhys’ sister.