History Music / DavidGray

David Gray is a British-born singer/songwriter best known for his distinctive voice (which at least one reviewer has compared to whiskey in the sense of being deep and smokey) and folk-rock roots. His songs have been used in a variety of TV shows and movies, and quite a few are {{Tear Jerker}}s.

* CreatorBreakdown: ''A New Day At Midnight'' was written after his father died, and "The Other Side" in particular is about him trying to deal with this.

* OneHitWonder: Averted, though it looked for a while like "Babylon" was going to be his one big hit. Since then he has had several other successful singles, though "Babylon" is still his best known song and his only big hit in America.

* ShrugOfGod: The meaning of the lyrics of "Alibi". Gray says it was a stream of consciousness experience writing it, so he doesn't really know what it means. Same with several other tracks that he more or less comes up with off the cuff, including "Foundling".

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* {{Adorkable}}: Especially when he was younger, but he still has a bit of this. This is especially evident whenever he tries to dance, since it comes out as adorable flailing, and at the beginning of [[http://youtu.be/89ITZkGyvUQ this video]] where he tries to find the right guitar.

* OneHitWonder: Averted, though it looked for a while like "Babylon" was going to be his one big hit. Since then he has had several other successful singles, though "Babylon" is still his best known song.

* {{Wales}}: Where he spent part of his childhood, and today still has a slight accent.

-->"[Full Steam] is a song with quite dark sentiments. I see it as a broad political thing, I think of the line from TSEliot, 'a patient etherised upon a table', that's the state we're in as a collective mass. We're just sedated, talking shit. But it would have sunk under it's own worthy weight with another male singer singing with me, when I was demoing it with my own voice it was like two bullocks braying in a field – too testosterone!" "

* ShrugOfGod: The meaning of the lyrics of "Alibi". Gray says it was a stream of consciousness experience writing it, so he doesn't really know what it means.

* {{Adorkable}}: Especially when he was younger, but he still has a bit of this. This is especially evident whenever he tries to dance, since it comes out as adorable flailing.