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Mal Pope

Singer-songwriter / Broadcaster

Maldwyn Pope was born in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, on 18 May 1960, into a family of teachers. He started learning the guitar at seven and was writing songs almost straight away. While still a schoolboy he sent a tape to John Peel, which led to sessions at the BBC and a recording contract with The Rocket Record Company, Elton John's label.

He has recorded many albums and toured as a support act to Elton John, Art Garfunkel and others. In 1982 he joined BBC Radio Wales as a researcher and became one of Wales's best-known broadcasters. He also sang the theme tune to the children's series Fireman Sam.

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Swansea singer-songwriter signed by Elton John's Rocket Records as a teenager, later a broadcaster and writer of Welsh musicals.

His television chat show for HTV won a Welsh BAFTA in 1995. He turned to musical theatre with Amazing Grace, about the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival, which in 2006 became the first original Welsh musical staged at the Wales Millennium Centre, and Contender, about the boxer Tommy Farr, which premiered at the United Nations in New York.

Career Highlights

  • Signed to Elton John's Rocket Records as a teenager
  • 1995 - Welsh BAFTA for his HTV chat show
  • 2006 - Amazing Grace staged at the Wales Millennium Centre
ℹ️ Born 18 May 1960 in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Wales.

Born in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, into a family of teachers, and still based in Swansea.

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