Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Daddy G
Person · male · United Kingdom · Bristol · born 1959 · recording since 2004
British musician
Also known as Grant Marshall
Timeline
2 events◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1950s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: DJ-Kicks: Daddy G
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography190 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1379027680
Biography
Grantley Evan Marshall (born 18 December 1959), also known by the stage name Daddy G, is a British DJ and a founding member of the band Massive Attack.
Biography
Born in Bristol to Barbadian parents, Marshall joined the Bristol music scene as a member of the sound system the Wild Bunch in the 1980s. The sound system included the other three founding members of Massive Attack, Robert del Naja, Tricky
and Andrew Vowles. At the time, he was one of the youngest DJs in the city. In 1986, The Wild Bunch disbanded. Del Naja, Vowles, and Marshall then formed the trip hop group Massive Attack in 1988, which are considered to have pioneered the Bristol Sound along with Portishead and Tricky.
Between 2001 and 2005, Marshall was mainly absent from Massive Attack, with 100th Window being the only album he did not have major input on. Reuniting (minus Vowles) for Heligoland and more recent projects, the group divided the production work between Marshall and Del Naja, who each worked on separate songs in their own studios, choosing their own collaborators.
Other work
Marshall mixed a CD for the DJ-Kicks mix series in 2004.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups)
Album · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | DJ-Kicks: Daddy GSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:11:031Intro0:14 2Armagideon Time2:21 3Rockfort Rock0:12 4Non Non Non3:45 5Aftermath (Version 1)5:34 6Just Kissed My Baby4:40 7Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack remix)3:29 8Face à la mer (Massive Attack remix)5:27 9Karmacoma (The Napoli Trip)6:05 10Budy Bye4:21 11Signs (Dubplate mix)5:29 12Here I Come (Dubplate version)3:45 13Oh Yeah3:57 14Inspection (Check One)6:26 15I Against I5:21 16Rock Steady (Danny Krivit edit)4:29 17Unfinished Sympathy (Perfecto mix by Paul Oakenfold)5:28 | Compilation,DJ-mix | 25 October 2004 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Daddy G head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wild Bunch(band) | — | present | |
| Massive Attack(band) | 1988 | 2001 | keyboard,lead vocals,sampler |
| Massive Attack(band) | 2005 | present | lead vocals |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massive_Attack_022-crop.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/57070ee8-e44c-48c7-9519-6c985adfe6b2discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/57070ee8-e44c-48c7-9519-6c985adfe6b2core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925619genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q925619seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Gbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_G
Why this artist is in the database
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Image: Rod Maurice pour le Festival des Eurockéennes · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q925619 · MusicBrainz: 57070ee8-e44c-48c7-9519-6c985adfe6b2
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