29 Facts About Winston Marshall

Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall was born on 20 December 1987 and is a British musician.

Winston Marshall has performed music with different supergroups and collaborated with Baaba Maal and HVOB.

Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, on 20 December 1987.

Winston Marshall's father is Sir Paul Marshall, a British tycoon who co-founded the Marshall Wace hedge fund and is the co-owner of GB News.

Winston Marshall was educated at St Paul's School, an independent school in London.

Winston Marshall began playing guitar aged thirteen and started a ZZ Top cover group called Gobbler's Knob.

The album, Sigh No More, on which Marshall is credited as "Country Winston", was released that year along with the single "Little Lion Man"; written by Mumford, the song was nominated at the 2011 Grammy Awards as Best Rock Song.

Chris Richards of The Washington Post added that the musicians' stage presence, particularly Winston Marshall "thrusting his pelvis like a bluegrass Rick James", was irritating.

Winston Marshall provided lead vocals for the song "For Those Below".

The next year they released an EP, Johannesburg, with African artists Baaba Maal, Beatenberg and the Very Best; they had been approached to do the project after Winston Marshall worked with Maal on other music.

Winston Marshall sang lead vocals on the song "Fool You've Landed", which he co-wrote with then-girlfriend Dianna Agron and Beatenberg's Matthew Field.

The music draws more on their adult life experiences than their previous work, with the Evening Standard noting that during its creation Winston Marshall got married but experienced depression.

Winston Marshall said that since the album was not their first and wouldn't be their last, they felt freedom to branch out in sound.

Winston Marshall started writing some of the songs on Delta in Nashville, where Agron was filming a movie and they became engaged.

Winston Marshall wrote "Wild Heart", which was recorded so quickly he did not actually perform on the track on the album.

In 2010, Winston Marshall was involved with a supergroup called Mt.

Winston Marshall then joined a different, temporary, supergroup called Salvador Dali Parton in October 2013, with fellow musicians Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show; Mike Harris of Apache Relay; Jake Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood; and Justin Hayward-Young of the Vaccines.

Winston Marshall has pursued comedy, taking improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade prior to 2013, and planning a comedy web series in 2015.

In 2015, Winston Marshall became interested in techno music and electronic dance music after he attended every night of a James Ford residency at London club XOYO.

Winston Marshall approached HVOB by sending an email that they initially thought was fake.

Together they released the single "The Blame Game", on which Winston Marshall contributes vocals, and the album Silk.

The album is darker than HVOB's other music, with the duo saying that Winston Marshall took their sound and styled it for a concert rather than club.

Winston Marshall collaborated individually with Baaba Maal between 2013 and 2015, at the 2013 and 2014 editions of the Blues du Fleuve festival and playing banjo on Maal's 2015 album The Traveller.

Winston Marshall experimented with more music in 2019 when he remixed the Maggie Rogers song "Light On" and Kevin Garrett song "Don't Rush".

In January 2021, Winston Marshall created a group that aims to connect Hong Kongers encouraged to immigrate to the UK with British residents, following the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law.

In 2023, Winston Marshall became engaged to Melissa Chen, contributing editor at The Spectator US.

In 2022, Winston Marshall said that after several album tours, the lifestyle had negatively affected him, leading him to start self-medicating with alcohol and to regularly take a mix of hard drugs, describing the time as "all a bit of a blur"; he got sober in 2019, saying this gave him clarity and energy.

Winston Marshall then had a "painful separation" from Agron and, when they divorced, returned to his Christian faith.

Winston Marshall was described as enthusiastic about fashion in 2010, comparing his style to that of the Brideshead Revisited character Sebastian Flyte, though has since expressed regret for choosing to wear this fashion for photoshoots rather than clothes he would personally wear.