Martyn Joseph

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martyn Joseph
Occupation	Folk Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 15, 1960(1960-07-15)
Age	64
Birthplace	Perth
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Cancer

Martyn Joseph Biography

Martyn Joseph is one of the most popular and richest Folk Singer who was born on July 15, 1960 in Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom. Welsh folk singer from Wales who has been able to claim global fame for albums like 1984’s No One’s Fool, and the 2010 album Under Lemonade Skies over the duration of his three-decade career. He was awarded his BBC Welsh Music Award for the Best Male Artist in 2004.

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Martyn Joseph (born 15 July 1960) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk, while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest. From independently releasing his first studio release, I’m Only Beginning in 1983, Joseph’s career has spanned over thirty years. In 2004, he won the Best Male Artist Category in the BBC Welsh Music Awards.

Born in Penarth, Wales, Joseph grew up as an avid golfer, having started to play at the age of 10. At 15 years old, he was playing off a handicap of one, and at 17, he became the youngest ever winner of the Glamorganshire Golf Club Championship. He has won that title four times and also played for the County of Glamorgan and in the British Youths and Amateur Championships in the 1980s. Joseph remains a keen amateur golfer and plays with a handicap of four. However, Joseph would gradually focus his career path on music. Growing up, he participated in school eisteddfods and, at his own estimate, he had already written several songs by his early teens.

He was married to Sian Joseph in the year 1985.

Martyn Joseph Net Worth

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

He played in school music festivals , and began creating his own songs by his teens. He began recording in 1983.

He is a top amateur golfer. He has been crowned his place in the Glamorganshire Golf Club Championship four times.

After being dropped by Sony, he recorded two albums for the UK independent record label Grapevine: Full Colour Black and White and Tangled Souls. His first release under Grapevine featured the fourth track “Ballad of Richard Lewis”, a homage to the Welsh labourer and hero better known as Dic Penderyn, who was sentenced to death after leading the Merthyr Rising of 1831. The song would be later included in further albums (including the Thunder and Rainbows compilation, the Don’t Talk About Love live album, and Evolved, as a re- recording in a different style) as “Dic Penderyn”.

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Who is Martyn Joseph Dating?

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Joseph has performed as a support act for a variety of artists, such as Chris de Burgh, Marc Cohn, Joan Armatrading, Art Garfunkel, Janis Ian, and Suzanne Vega. In June 2000, he left a tour with Shirley Bassey after only eight shows over what he described as “rather obvious artistic differences”. Prior to the tour, he admitted in an interview with Cross Rhythms, “I’ve heard that she can be difficult…I figure that [my songs will] paint a slightly different picture to the one she will probably paint so I guess it’s a sense of balance, it’s a challenge.” Having unexpected time on his hands, he recorded an EP entitled The Shirley Sessions, which consisted of several songs written during the tour.

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Martyn Ranked on the list of most popular Folk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Martyn Joseph celebrates birthday on July 15 of every year.

Between Far From Silent and his next LP, Joseph came out with several works, the first of which was a 2000 limited edition EP, The Shirley Sessions, which he worked on primarily during a tour with Shirley Bassey gone awry. The next year, in 2001, Joseph compiled a two-disc best-of album entitled Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find comprising 31 of his previous favourites and two new songs. Following his first best-of compilation, he came out with his second live album, two volumes of recordings under the title Don’t Talk About Love 1992 – 2002.