Winston Marshall

Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons with a fan in Pelham, Alabama in September 9

Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall (born 20 December 1987) is a British musician, best known as the banjoist and, more recently, the Lead guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.

Personal life

Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, England,[1] the son of Sabina (De Balkany) and Paul Marshall, a British investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Marshall Wace LLP hedge fund.[2] His mother is of French origin. Educated at St Paul's School, an independent school in London, England.[3] Marshall has one sibling, a sister, named Giovanna.

In late 2015, Marshall became engaged to Dianna Agron.[4] They got married on October 15, 2016 in Morocco.[5]

Career

Marshall is a founding member of the British folk band Mumford & Sons. He plays the banjo, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, and provides backing vocals. Marshall performed with two of his current band members, Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane, with Laura Marling before Mumford & Sons.[6]

Before Mumford & Sons became established, Marshall ran a jam night at Bosun's Locker, a tiny music club beneath a pasty shop on the King's Road in Fulham,[7] where a number of musicians who had an affinity for earthy acoustic music hung out and played with each other in fluid lineups.[8]

Marshall was in a band prior to Mumford & Sons called Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers,[9] a bluegrass sleaze rap band,[10] where he was credited as Country Winston and played the banjo and guitar.

In October 2013, Marshall joined a temporary supergroup named Salvador Dalí Parton 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. The band, intended as a joke from the start, wrote six songs in 20 minutes on their first day together, held its one and only full-band rehearsal the next day, and performed six shows around Nashville, Tennessee the following night before breaking up.[11]

References

  1. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV4K-PZCZ
  2. ↑ "Business profile: The Lib Dems' sugar daddy". The Telegraph. The Telegraph. March 5, 2006. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Cohen, David (March 7, 2011). "Hedge fund star: My plan to turn round London schools". London Evening Standard. London Evening Standard. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fisher, Kendall (February 23, 2016). "Dianna Agron Finally Shows Of Her Gorgeous Engagement Ring for the First Time". E! Online. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ http://m.eonline.com/news/802121/dianna-agron-marries-mumford-and-sons-winston-marshall-in-romantic-ceremony
  6. ↑ Roberts, Lynn (March 12, 2011). "From the archives: FFS interviews Mumford and Sons". For Folk's Sake. For Folk's Sake. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jones, Alice (September 21, 2012). "Mumford and Sons: The English folkies on top of the world". The Independent. The Independent. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bauer, Patricia (October 8, 2013). "Mumford & Sons". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers". MySpace. MySpace. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Frost, Matt (February 2009). "Mumford & Sons PM's Question Time". Performing Musician. Performing Musician. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  11. ↑ Gold, Adam (October 27, 2013). "Salvador Dali Parton Take Nashville". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
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