Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall (born 20 December 1987) is a British musician, best known as the banjoist and, more recently, the lead guitarist of the Grammy Award-winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. He is also known by his stage name WN5TN, as per the credits of Mumford and Sons' third studio album Wilder Mind.
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Personal life
Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, England and is the son of Sabina (De Balkany) and Paul Marshall, a British investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Marshall Wace LLP hedge fund. His mother is of French origin. Marshall was educated at St Paul's School, an independent school in London, England. He has one a sister named Giovanna.
In late 2015, Marshall became engaged to American actress Dianna Agron. They were married on October 15, 2016 in Morocco.
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Career
Marshall is a founding member of the British folk band Mumford & Sons. He plays the banjo, bass guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, and provides backing vocals. Marshall performed with two of his current band members, Marcus Mumford and Ted Dwane, with Laura Marling before Mumford & Sons.
Before Mumford & Sons was established, Marshall ran a jam night at Bosun's Locker, a tiny music club beneath a pasty shop on the King's Road in Fulham, where a number of musicians who had an affinity for earthy acoustic music played with each other.
Marshall was in a band prior to Mumford & Sons called Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers, a bluegrass sleaze rap band, in which he was credited as Country Winston and played the banjo and guitar.
In October 2013, Marshall joined a temporary supergroup named Salvador Dalí Parton with fellow musicians Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show, Mike Harris of Apache Relay, Jake Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood, and Justin Hayward-Young of the Vaccines. The band, intended as a joke from the start, wrote six songs in 20 minutes on their first day together, held its one and only full-band rehearsal the next day, and performed six shows around Nashville, Tennessee the following night before breaking up.
In 2015, Marshall became interested in Techno Music and EDM after spending several nights attending James Ford residency in a night club.
In 2016, he joined the Austrian DJ duo HVOB for a collaboration. They recorded an album named Silk. Their first single, called "The Blame Game", was released in February 2017. The album was released on March 24. They toured across Europe and Asia, playing in festivals and night clubs while Winston was also performing in concerts with Mumford and Sons.
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