Cerys Matthews | Mike Beeston

11 April 1969
Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster.
She learned to play the guitar at the age of nine, sang Welsh folk songs and taught herself traditional songs from all over the globe including blues and Irish folk songs
She was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra
She had a stint in Spain as a nanny, where she learned to speak Catalan
She has two sons and a daughter and is married to Steve Abbott
She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia
She was voted the “Sexiest Female in Rock” in a 1999 readers’ poll in Melody Maker
She makes documentaries for television and radio and was a roving reporter for The One Show.
She is an author and wrote Hook, Line and Singer and children’s stories Tales from the Deep
She performed a single with the band Space named “The Ballad of Tom Jones”, which tells the story of two lovers who want to kill each other
She collaborated with Tom Jones to record “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
In 2012, she appeared as a celebrity guest mentor for Tom Jones’s team on the first series of the UK version of The Voice.
She won a ‘St David Award’ – for her contribution to culture in 2014
She was appointed an MBE in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music.
Her hits include: “You’ve Got a Lot to Answer For”, “Mulder and Scully”, “Dead from the Waist Down”, and “Road Rage”

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