David Gray (British musician)

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David Gray
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Gray performing in 2010
Background information
Birth nameDavid Peter Gray
Born (1968-06-13) 13 June 1968 (age 56)
Sale, Cheshire, England
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
  • producer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
  • keyboards
  • harmonica
Years active1992–present
Labels
Website davidgray.com

David Peter Gray (born 13 June 1968) [2] is a British singer-songwriter. Having released his debut album in 1993, he received worldwide attention with White Ladder five years later, particularly for the hit single "Babylon". [3] [4] [5] White Ladder was the first of three chart-toppers in six years for Gray in the UK, where it became the fifth best-selling album of the 2000s. [6] In 2019, it was ranked as the UK's tenth best-selling album of the 21st century. [7] David Gray reached the US Top 20 with five successive albums, [8] and has received four Brit Award nominations, including two nominations for Best British Male. [9]

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Career

Early life and career

David Gray was born in 1968 in Sale, Cheshire, England. He was born with pyloric stenosis, which is a narrowing of the opening from the stomach to the first part of the small intestine. He was initially misdiagnosed, and nearly died from starvation. [10] He lived in Altrincham before moving with his family at the age of nine to Solva, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where his parents took over a gift shop and started a clothing business. [11] [12] "I had an amazing time growing up there ... My imagination could run wild ... It was that which gave me the kind of insane self-belief I have, and had even then, that I could do something as unlikely as play music for a living." [12] He went to Ysgol Dewi Sant high school in nearby St Davids and then on to Carmarthenshire College of Art and finally Liverpool School of Art. [12]

Gray's first two albums, A Century Ends and Flesh , were issued in 1993 and 1994 respectively and led to Gray becoming popular in folk-rock circles, but both failed in terms of commercial sales. [13] Simon Price wrote of Gray's debut single, "Birds Without Wings": "He sounded like an anguished, intense troubadour, potentially a male PJ Harvey." [14] In 1996 Gray released his third album, Sell, Sell, Sell . The album was recorded at Pyramid Sound Studios in Ithaca, New York. Despite his dislike of the album, Gray continued to maintain residence in Ithaca on and off over the years. Despite critical acclaim,[ citation needed ] the album did not chart, but the song "Late Night Radio" received some airplay on alternative UK radio stations. On the 1997 Mary Black album Shine , Gray contributed five songs.[ citation needed ]

1998–2002: White Ladder and rise to fame

Originally released on Gray's own label IHT Records in November 1998, [15] White Ladder was re-released in 2000 on EastWest internationally and on ATO Records in the US and Canada. The re-release brought him commercial success and critical attention. [16] While his first three albums featured acoustic folk songs and guitar-based alternative rock, White Ladder introduced his now-trademark folktronic sound. The album included his best-known songs: "This Year's Love", "Babylon", "Please Forgive Me" and "Sail Away". After its re-release, combined with the release and success of single "Babylon", it sold 100,000 copies in Ireland alone, making it number one for six weeks, [17] and according to a 2012 report was the biggest-selling album ever in that country. [18] In June 2000, "Babylon" hit No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart; it remains his biggest UK hit to date. In the United States, the album received a boost from jam-band leader Dave Matthews, who made it the first release by ATO Records, the record company he co-founded. "Babylon" was also the first of three US chart entries for Gray to date.[ citation needed ]

Gray performing an acoustic set on 17 August 2003 David Gray (227236934).jpg
Gray performing an acoustic set on 17 August 2003

The album was No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, two years and five months after its original release, [19] spending a total of 151 weeks on the chart. [20] Aside from "Please Forgive Me", which charted at No. 72 on the UK Singles Chart, all other single releases charted within the Top 20: [20] the re-released "Please Forgive Me" charted at number 18, and "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" and "Sail Away" peaked at number 26.

The year 2001 also saw the release of a rarities compilation of Gray's early works, The EPs 1992-1994 , as well as an album of previously unreleased songs recorded in 1999, Lost Songs 95-98 , both of which followed White Ladder into the Top 20 in the UK Albums Chart. Gray also provided vocals on the electronic-based band Orbital's 2001 single "Illuminate".

In November 2002, Gray released the follow-up to White Ladder, entitled A New Day at Midnight . The new release did not receive the same critical acclaim as its predecessor, but still went straight in at number 1, famously beating Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates's debut album What My Heart Wants to Say to the summit and selling nearly 150,000 copies in its first week of release. It went on to achieve platinum status within a year, eventually being certified four times platinum overall, and was the second-biggest selling album by a UK artist in 2002, behind Pop Idol winner Will Young's debut album From Now On . A New Day at Midnight produced two further UK Top 30 hits in "The Other Side" and "Be Mine" and a minor US hit with "Dead in the Water".

Later career

Gray and his band performing in 2006 David Gray Rock am Ring 2006.jpg
Gray and his band performing in 2006

After a three-year hiatus which saw him wind down his recording and touring schedule due to exhaustion, Gray returned with his seventh album, Life in Slow Motion , in September 2005. Like its predecessor, it topped the UK Albums Chart in its first week of release. After the much-criticised A New Day at Midnight, Life in Slow Motion was hailed as a return to form by many critics. Lead single "The One I Love" was a Top 10 hit in the UK in October 2005 and spent three months in the UK chart. Following the relative commercial failure of follow-up singles "Hospital Food" and "Alibi", Gray again went into hiatus during 2006.

In March 2007, Gray released the compilation album Shine: The Best of the Early Years . On 7 July 2007, Gray performed with Damien Rice at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium in London. Gray released a compilation CD of live covers entitled A Thousand Miles Behind exclusively through his official website on 8 October that year on CD and digital download. On 13 November, Gray released the album Greatest Hits , which includes many of his best known songs as well as two new songs, including the lead single "You're the World to Me".

On 28 May 2009, Gray announced that his album Draw the Line would be released on 14 September in the UK and on 22 September in the United States. The album features guest appearances by Annie Lennox and Jolie Holland. The album's first single, "Fugitive", was released on 7 September 2009, coinciding with the start of an expansive world tour. On 19 September, Gray performed his self-proclaimed first pool-side concert at the Rooftop Pool at The Colonnade Hotel in Boston for the Mix 104.1 End of Summer Bash. Gray performed songs from the new album, including "Fugitive", "Draw the Line" and "Jackdaw".

In an interview for Hot Press , released on 3 December 2009, Gray revealed to Jackie Hayden that he was working on his next album, Foundling . Gray said that one of the tracks would be called "The Old Chair", which, according to Gray, "features just a drum kit and me on my Steinway piano. It's very quiet." Foundling was released in the UK on 16 August. [21] and in the United States on 17 August. [22] Foundling is a double album: the first CD consists of 11 new songs and the second consists of eight previously unreleased songs. A ninth is available via iTunes.

David Gray signed a global agreement with Kobalt Label Services for the release of his 10th studio album, Mutineers . His first in four years, it was recorded at The Church Studios in London and produced by Andy Barlow (Lamb). The release took place on 17 June 2014. It was announced that Gray would support the new release with a North American tour through April and May, followed by an eight-date UK tour in June and July that included a show at the Royal Albert Hall in London. [23]

The Best of David Gray was released on CD, double CD and LP in October 2016, and included two new recordings. The album, released in conjunction with IHT Records, had already been released as a dynamic playlist on Spotify that automatically changed shape every week Gray commented: "What we have on our hands  is an ever-evolving 'Best Of' that is different every week, every month, every year, every decade." [24] [25]

In March 2019, Gray released his 11th record, Gold in a Brass Age . It was produced by Ben de Vries, son of producer Marius de Vries, and was seen largely as a return to his signature "folktronica" sound. [26]

In the year 2020, Gray released a 20th anniversary edition of White Ladder. A deluxe set with bonus tracks and demos was also made available on both CD and vinyl formats. He embarked on an international tour to celebrate the anniversary, starting in Europe in February, but it was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gray announced on 20 May 2020 via his social media channels that the tour had to be postponed. The tour kicked off in Belfast on the 17th of May 2022 nearly two years to the day it was cancelled. Gray has always credited Ireland for boosting his career with the original sales of White Ladder so it felt fitting to start the tour in Ireland.[ citation needed ]

Gray released his 12th studio album on 19 February 2021. Entitled Skellig (named after the Skellig Islands in County Kerry, Ireland) it featured a title track and a single called "Heart and Soul". [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] It was recorded at Edwyn Collins' Helmsdale studio in Sutherland and features David Kitt, Rob Malone and producer Ben de Vries as musicians on the record. [32] [33]

Musical style

Gray's early music was in a contemporary folk-rock, singer-songwriter mode; his primary instrument was acoustic guitar, with occasional piano. 1996's Sell, Sell, Sell featured some rock arrangements and electric instrumentation. Starting with the release of White Ladder , Gray began to make significant use of computer-generated music to accompany his voice and acoustic instrumentation. A New Day at Midnight continued this direction, although lyrically it was darker in tone than White Ladder and the instrumentation much more downbeat. In the liner notes, Gray dedicated the album to his father, who died in 2001. Despite the move to more complex music, Gray has used small-scale, often home-based, recording methods and equipment and espoused a do-it-yourself approach to music production. However, 2005's Life in Slow Motion was a collaboration with the record producer Marius de Vries.

Gray is noted for his 'bobble-headed' style of performing, often rocking his head in time vigorously to the music. Gray himself would comically play up this trait in the video for "Be Mine", in which his head eventually rolls off his body and gets thrown around in a variety of different locations.

Band

Former longterm band members:

Discography

Tours

Gray has been touring since 1993. Prior to his breakthrough album White Ladder in 1998, Gray had been the supporting act for the likes of Kirsty MacColl, The Corrs, Dave Matthews Band and Radiohead. He has had multiple tour dates in many different places, such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States. [36]

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2005 A Way of Life Anthony Asquith Award for New British ComposerNominated [37]

Brit Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2001 Himself British Male Solo Artist Nominated [38]
Lost Songs 95–98 British Album of the Year Nominated
"Babylon" British Single of the Year Nominated
2003 Himself British Male Solo Artist Nominated [39]

GQ Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2002HimselfBest Solo ArtistWon [40]

Grammy Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2002 Himself Best New Artist Nominated [41]
2020 Gold in a Brass Age Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package Nominated

Groovevolt Music and Fashion Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2006"From Here You Can Almost See the Sea"Best Pop Deep CutNominated [42]

IFPI Platinum Europe Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2000 White Ladder Album TitleWon [43]

Ivor Novello Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2001"Please Forgive Me"Best Contemporary SongNominated
"Babylon"Best Song Musically & LyricallyWon
2002"Sail Away"Nominated
2003"The Other Side"Won

MTV Video Music Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2001 "Babylon" Best New Artist in a Video Nominated [44]

MVPA Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2002"Please Forgive Me"Best Adult Contemporary VideoNominated [45]
Best Director of a Male ArtistNominated
Best Editing in a VideoNominated
"Sail Away"International Video of the YearNominated

Meteor Music Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2001 White Ladder Best International AlbumWon
HimselfBest International SongwriterWon
2003 Best International MaleNominated
2006 Nominated

Pollstar Concert Industry Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2001HimselfBest New Artist TourNominated [46]
2011Most Creative Tour PackageNominated [47]

Pop Factory Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2002 A New Day at Midnight Best CD ReleaseNominated [48]

Q Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2000"Babylon"Best SingleWon
2003HimselfInnovation in SoundNominated

Smash Hits Poll Winners Party

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2000HimselfBest New Male Solo StarNominated [49]

Personal life

Gray married his wife Olivia in Los Angeles, California in 1993, [50] and together they have two daughters: [51] Ivy and Florence. [52] He lives in London, having moved to Hampstead in 2009. [53] Gray is also the brother-in-law of Phil Hartnoll of Orbital. [54]

In 2011, a portrait of Gray was painted by English artist Joe Simpson. The painting was exhibited around the UK, including at a solo exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall. [55]

Gray is a Manchester United supporter. [53] He said in 2005 that he is an atheist. [56]

He is a patron of the charity Curlew Action. [57] In 2022, Gray contributed a new song, "The Arc", to the album Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds, released in partnership with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and musician and producer Merlyn Driver.

In 2024, Gray became an ambassador for the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. [58]

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