1. Gwyneth Herbert was born on 26 August 1981 and is a British singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
23 Facts About Gwyneth Herbert
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Gwyneth Herbert began playing the piano at the age of three and was writing basic songs at the age of five.
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Gwyneth Herbert learned the French horn, achieving Grade 8 by the age of 15.
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Gwyneth Herbert went to Glebelands School in Cranleigh, Surrey and, for her sixth form studies, to Alton College in Hampshire, where her musical tastes moved more towards jazz.
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Gwyneth Herbert left Universal Classics and Jazz to pursue a less commercial and more personal musical direction and then self-financed a project in which she collaborated with Polar Bear's Seb Rochford in a production role.
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In October 2009, Gwyneth Herbert returned to Harder Sound Studio to record the song "Perfect Fit" which she gave away as a free download, available exclusively from Naim Edge.
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In January 2010, Gwyneth Herbert was commissioned by Snape Maltings as artist in residence to write, record and perform a new body of work based on stories of the sea.
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The songs on the album, all written by Gwyneth Herbert, have been described as "exquisitely crafted".
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In 2010, Gwyneth Herbert won the Stiles and Drewe Song of the Year Award with her composition "Lovely London Town", from a musical she wrote with playwright Diane Samuels.
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Gwyneth Herbert returned to Bristol Old Vic in December 2018 as a performer, composer, lyricist and musical director for a musical production of the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, directed by Lee Lyford, which received a five-starred rating from the Bristol Post.
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Gwyneth Herbert had a part in this production in what The Observer's reviewer described as the "terrifying, curse-hurling Queen Mouse, played by Herbert with wicked glee".
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Gwyneth Herbert was the composer and sound designer for a play by Diane Samuels, Poppy + George, which was performed at Watford Palace Theatre in February 2016.
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Gwyneth Herbert has collaborated with Diane Samuels in writing a new musical about contraception, The Rhythm Method, which was performed at the Landor Space in Clapham, London in May 2018.
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Gwyneth Herbert composed music for Le Tabou, a full two-act musical theatre piece based on the surrealist novel Froth on the Daydream and the life of its author Boris Vian, written by Kath Burlinson and performed by Youth Music Theatre UK at the Barbican Theatre, Plymouth in August 2013.
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In 2017, Gwyneth Herbert wrote the song "Boxed Up Broken Heart" for actress Jasmine Armfield to perform in the BBC television programme EastEnders, in her role as Bex Fowler.
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Gwyneth Herbert co-wrote, with Olivia Stevens, the song "Leave A Little Light On", which was released as a single by Ruby and the Revelators in January 2019.
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In March 2010, Gwyneth Herbert performed a newly commissioned score for Marion Davies' 1928 silent comedy classic The Patsy, at BFI Southbank's Birds Eye View Film Festival.
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In 2012, Gwyneth Herbert joined forces with members of the Buck Clayton Legacy Band to explore, in a series of concerts and talks, the jazz repertoire of Peggy Lee.
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Gwyneth Herbert talked to Claire Martin about her album Bittersweet and Blue on BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line-Up on 12 February 2005 and was interviewed about her career on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour on 28 November 2007.
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Gwyneth Herbert produced this track and three others on the album, co-producing a fifth track with Ben Humphreys.
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Gwyneth Herbert was a vocalist on Dave Price's original soundtrack digital album for The Roof, which was performed by London's Fuel Theatre during 2014.
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London Jazz News described the treatment of Paul Weller's song, with Gwyneth Herbert accompanied only by Mason's piano, as "a haunting and affecting performance".
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Gwyneth Herbert performed songs on the 2004 album The Music of BB Cooper: Featuring the Best in British Vocal Jazz and the 2022 album Heart of Mine: Songs of Ross Lorraine.