PERSON: Winston Marshall
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Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall (born 20 December 1987) is an English musician and podcaster. He is best known as the former banjoist and lead guitarist of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers. With Mumford & Sons, Marshall has won multiple awards, including a Grammy and two Brit Awards. He has performed music with different supergroups and collaborated with Baaba Maal and HVOB. After leaving Mumford & Sons, Marshall started an interview podcast with The Spectator.
Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, on 20 December 1987, to Sir Paul Marshall, a British tycoon and co-founder of the Marshall Wace hedge fund, and Sabina de Balkany, from a genteel European Jewish family. He has a sister, singer/songwriter Giovanna. His mother is French, and his maternal grandmother was property tycoon Molly de Balkany, one of the first female property developers in France; Marshall’s maternal great-uncle was the billionaire developer and collector Robert Zellinger de Balkany. Through Robert’s marriages, Marshall’s great-aunts include Genevieve François-Poncet, daughter of André François-Poncet, and Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy. Molly and Robert were the children of Hungarian-Romanian businessman Aladar Zellinger, with the family relocating to France after World War II; they added “de Balkany” to the name upon arrival in France. Marshall has said that thirteen members of his family “were murdered in [...] the Holocaust,” and that his maternal grandmother was a survivor. Marshall was educated at St Paul’s School, an independent school in London.
In 2010, The Guardian wrote that “there’s [nothing] inherently wrong with musicians being privately educated. It’s just a bit grating when one of them insists on going by the name “Country” Winston Marshall”.
Marshall began playing guitar aged thirteen and started a ZZ Top cover group called Gobbler’s Knob. While the other members of Mumford & Sons were influenced by jazz, Marshall described the genre in 2013 as “the lowest form of art”. He was inspired to play banjo after seeing O Brother, Where Art Thou?, switching to folk music and wearing his hair in dreadlocks. Referring to his youth exploits, he saw himself as a trustafarian, and chose not to attend university in order to play music. Marshall and future bandmate Marcus Mumford met as teenagers at church, playing worship music at a church group together and in a worship band, with Mumford saying Marshall is “magnetic to be around”. Marshall, a multi-instrumentalist, has said that he chose to focus on banjo over guitar because there were fewer banjoists and so it was easier for him to get session jobs.
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Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, on 20 December 1987, to Sir Paul Marshall, a British tycoon and co-founder of the Marshall Wace hedge fund, and Sabina de Balkany, from a genteel European Jewish family. He has a sister, singer/songwriter Giovanna. His mother is French, and his maternal grandmother was property tycoon Molly de Balkany, one of the first female property developers in France; Marshall’s maternal great-uncle was the billionaire developer and collector Robert Zellinger de Balkany. Through Robert’s marriages, Marshall’s great-aunts include Genevieve François-Poncet, daughter of André François-Poncet, and Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy. Molly and Robert were the children of Hungarian-Romanian businessman Aladar Zellinger, with the family relocating to France after World War II; they added “de Balkany” to the name upon arrival in France. Marshall has said that thirteen members of his family “were murdered in [...] the Holocaust,” and that his maternal grandmother was a survivor. Marshall was educated at St Paul’s School, an independent school in London.
In 2010, The Guardian wrote that “there’s [nothing] inherently wrong with musicians being privately educated. It’s just a bit grating when one of them insists on going by the name “Country” Winston Marshall”.
Marshall began playing guitar aged thirteen and started a ZZ Top cover group called Gobbler’s Knob. While the other members of Mumford & Sons were influenced by jazz, Marshall described the genre in 2013 as “the lowest form of art”. He was inspired to play banjo after seeing O Brother, Where Art Thou?, switching to folk music and wearing his hair in dreadlocks. Referring to his youth exploits, he saw himself as a trustafarian, and chose not to attend university in order to play music. Marshall and future bandmate Marcus Mumford met as teenagers at church, playing worship music at a church group together and in a worship band, with Mumford saying Marshall is “magnetic to be around”. Marshall, a multi-instrumentalist, has said that he chose to focus on banjo over guitar because there were fewer banjoists and so it was easier for him to get session jobs.
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