Gwenno Saunders
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Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known mononymously as Gwenno, who has received critical acclaim in the UK. After a series of EPs, she released four albums as a solo artist: (2014), a Welsh Music Prize winner; Le Kov (2018), her first album in Cornish; (2022), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize; and Utopia (2025).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Gwenno Saunders is referenced by 93 other articles, and connects out to Rose Elinor Dougall, Y Dydd Olaf and linguistics.
It sits within the topics 1981 births, 21st-century Welsh women singers and Bards of Gorsedh Kernow.
Its subject is documented across 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Wales
- Active from
- 1981-05-23
Discography
- Môr Hud2002
- Vodya2003
- U & I2007
- Ymbelydredd2012
- Chwyldro2013
- Fratlish Hiang Perpeshki2014
- Golau Arall2014
- Y Dydd Olaf2014
- Tir Ha mor2018
- Hi a Skoellyas LIV a Dhagrow2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 268
- Total plays
- 1,484
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Gwenno
- Musical artist.image
- Gwenno Saunders (cropped).jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Gwenno in 2016
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Gwenno Mererid Saunders
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Cardiff, Wales
- Musical artist.years_active
- 2002–present
- Musical artist.past_member_of
- The Pipettes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Saunders
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cardiff
- Father
- Tim Saunders
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- electropop
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Heavenly Recordings
- Official website
- www.gwenno.info
- Image
- Gwenno Saunders.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1981-05-23
- Commons category
- Gwenno Saunders
- inspired by
- Owain Owain
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- social media followers
- 13760
- member of
- The Pipettes
- name in native language
- Gwenno Mererid Saunders
- number of viewers/listeners
- 952031
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Music career
- Early career (2002–2010)
- Solo career (2010–present)
- Cultural influence
- Personal life
- Discography
- Solo
- Albums
- EPs
- With the Pipettes
- Appears on
- See also
- References
- External links
Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known mononymously as Gwenno, who has received critical acclaim in the UK. After a series of EPs, she released four albums as a solo artist: (2014), a Welsh Music Prize winner; Le Kov (2018), her first album in Cornish; (2022), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize; and Utopia (2025).
She was also a singer in the indie pop group the Pipettes, whose debut We Are the Pipettes was described by Pitchfork as "a classic modern indie-pop album".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gwenno Saunders” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.