David Gray

David Gray is an artist whose voice somehow loosens whatever tension I am carrying. A singer-songwriter from Sale who studied at Liverpool School of Art, he broke through globally with White Ladder and the unmistakable Babylon, an album that became one of the best-selling of the 2000s in Britain. I find it genuinely heartening that a quiet, guitar-and-voice songwriter reached that height. Even with multiple UK number-one albums, he stayed grounded and kept writing with real sincerity, branching into film scoring along the way. I will always make room for craftsmen like this who refine their own sound rather than chase trends.

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Name (English)

David Gray

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・グレイ

Reading

でゔぃっど・ぐれい

Born

June 13, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Sale, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / composer / film score composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

University

University of Liverpool

• Official sitehttps://www.davidgray.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davidgray/
• Xhttps://x.com/DavidGray
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gray%20(British%20musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320915

Tags

• singer
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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