Congratulations to Gruff Rhys, winner of the inaugural Welsh Music Prize.
Rhys won with his third solo album Hotel Shampoo. The Super Furry Animals lead singer explained the inspiration for the album: 'When I started touring, I was new to hotels. I started keeping all the free stuff because I couldn't believe it was free
'Cut to 15 years later and I had too many of them, so I built my own hotel, called Hotel Shampoo, which is about the size of a dog kennel. I sat in it and wrote this album.
'I think I put everything into the song writing with this record. I thought I would make an album of piano ballads.'
Gruff paid tribute to all the shortlisted albums, saying: 'I'm really surprised, it was a really strong list of albums and it could have gone to anyone.'
The Welsh Music Prize is the brainchild of Swn Festival organiser John Rostron and BBC broadcaster Huw Stephens to showcase the best in Welsh music.
Rhys won with his third solo album Hotel Shampoo. The Super Furry Animals lead singer explained the inspiration for the album: 'When I started touring, I was new to hotels. I started keeping all the free stuff because I couldn't believe it was free
'Cut to 15 years later and I had too many of them, so I built my own hotel, called Hotel Shampoo, which is about the size of a dog kennel. I sat in it and wrote this album.
'I think I put everything into the song writing with this record. I thought I would make an album of piano ballads.'
Gruff paid tribute to all the shortlisted albums, saying: 'I'm really surprised, it was a really strong list of albums and it could have gone to anyone.'
The Welsh Music Prize is the brainchild of Swn Festival organiser John Rostron and BBC broadcaster Huw Stephens to showcase the best in Welsh music.
