Biography
Matthews was born in Cardiff and brought up in Swansea and Pembrokeshire, and is a fluent Welsh, Spanish and French speaker and multi-instrumentalist. She has cited her childhood heroes as being Pippi Longstocking and writers WB Yeats and Dylan Thomas. She learned to play the guitar at the age of nine, teaching herself blues and Irish folk songs. She was a member of the West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra. After a stint in Spain as a nanny, where she learned to speak Catalan, Matthews worked for the Pembrokeshire County Council. She later moved back to Cardiff and became involved with the local music scene, meeting Mark Roberts. She currently resides in London with her children Glenys Pearl y Felin (born 10 August 2003), Johnny Tupelo Jones (born August 2005), and Red Owen (born 23 November 2009). Her son Red was born eight weeks premature.
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