Owain phyfe biography examples

Owain Phyfe is a vocalist, instrumentalist, composer, and the founder of Nightwatch Recording, which concentrates on Renaissance and Medieval music.

Early years

Phyfe grew up in a bilingual family with Welsh as a second language.

Nourished by his grandparent's appreciation for song, Phyfe's study of languages in college and his travels abroad to England, France, and Spain as well as his experience later as a musician in New York City's Greenwich Village led to finding his own Renaissance spirit.^[1]

Beginnings

In the mid-1980s, Phyfe and his wife Paula became festival performers at the Michigan Renaissance Festival.

Spellbound by early music, Phyfe decided to develop a "singer of songs" persona. While researching late medieval and renaissance music, he found himself favoring faire life over the automotive engineering company he had started in 1983.

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