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Gwenno Saunders is a Welsh singer-songwriter and musician. She was born in Cardiff, Wales, and is the daughter of Welsh musician and producer Euros Childs. She is best known for her solo work, which combines elements of Welsh language pop, electronica, and dream pop.
Gwenno's career began in 2006 when she joined the band The Pipettes, with whom she released two albums. She left the band in 2009 and released her debut solo album, Y Dydd Olaf, in 2014. The album was critically acclaimed and won the Welsh Music Prize in 2015.
Gwenno has since released two more solo albums, Le Kov in 2017 and Ghost in 2019. She has also collaborated with other artists, including Gruff Rhys and Cate Le Bon.
Gwenno is 39 years old. She is 5ft 5in tall and has a slim build.
Gwenno is currently single. She has not been previously engaged.
Gwenno Saunders's net worth is estimated to be in the range of approximately $1.5 million in 2021, according to sources. Her primary source of income is her career as a singer-songwriter and musician.
| Popular As |
Gwenno Mererid Saunders |
| Occupation |
Musician · singer · dancer |
| Age |
42 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
| Born |
23 May, 1981 |
| Birthday |
23 May |
| Birthplace |
Cardiff, Wales |
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Gwenno Saunders Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Gwenno Saunders Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
From the age of five she attended the Seán Éireann-McMahon Academy of Irish Dance and was a cast member of Michael Flatley's productions of Lord Of The Dance and Feet of Flames by the age of 17, playing a lead role in a Las Vegas production of the former. In 2001 she had a role in the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm on S4C, for whom she would later host her own programme Ydy Gwenno'n Gallu...? She is fluent in Welsh and Cornish. On 18 April 2019 she presented "Songs from the Edgelands", a programme about songs in minority languages on BBC Radio 4.
Saunders is married to the Welsh producer Rhys Edwards, and has one son. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh in 2019 for "services to the Cornish language through music and the media". Her bardic name is Palores A-Bell (Chough from Afar in English).
In October 2018 the Cornish Language Board claimed that Saunders' album Le Kov had contributed to a 15% increase in the number of people taking Cornish language exams during 2018.
Gwenno also currently co-produces and co-hosts a Welsh radio show on Cardiff Radio titled "Cam O'r Tywyllwch" ("A Step Away from the Darkness") with her Peski Records colleagues. The team was also behind the CAM '15 music festival in Cardiff, which took place in April 2015 and featured the first live performance in over 20 years by Welsh music post-punk pioneers Datblygu.
She released her first solo full-length album, the Welsh-language Y Dydd Olaf, in October 2014 on Peski Records. In May 2015 Gwenno was signed to Heavenly Recordings. The label re-released her debut album in July. The album won Best Welsh Album at the 2015 National Eisteddfod and in November 2015 won the 2014–2015 Welsh Music Prize.
Gwenno appears on The Boy Least Likely To's 2013 album The Great Perhaps, contributing vocals to the track "It Could Have Been Me".
Gwenno has toured as a synth player with Pnau and Elton John in 2012.
In June 2012, Saunders released a five-song Welsh language EP, Ymbelydredd, available on hand-painted cassettes on Peski Records.
Gwenno joined the Pipettes in April 2005 after founding member Julia left. She is most notable for her lead vocals on the single "Pull Shapes" and the chorus of "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me". She has more recently posted solo material to her Myspace page, and made a free download of a mini album titled U & I available in October 2007. In April 2008, Gwenno's younger sister Ani joined the Pipettes, after the departure of singers Rosay and RiotBecki. Ani now also releases music with the band The Lovely Wars and solo under the name Ani Glass.
In the years before she joined the Pipettes, she had been a solo electropop singer, mostly in the Welsh and Cornish languages, releasing two solo EPs, Môr Hud (2002) and Vodya (2004). Saunders represented Cornwall in the Liet International song contest, 2003, and won the People's Choice Award for her performance of "Vodya". In December 2004 Gwenno filmed the song "Ysolt y'nn Gweinten" by Celtic Legend for Classic FM TV. It is claimed to be the first video produced in the Cornish language, the text having been written by her father Tim Saunders with music by Cornish composer and ex Gary Numan keyboard player Chris John Payne.
Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Cornish-Welsh musician, known by the stage name Gwenno. She performs as a solo artist, releasing her first album Y Dydd Olaf on Heavenly Recordings in 2015 followed by her first album in Cornish in 2018, entitled Le Kov. Gwenno Saunders has also been a singer in the indie pop group the Pipettes.
