Portrait of the artist: Cerys Matthews, singer

'The best advice I've been given? Tom Jones told me not to drink before going on stage. Simple, but it works'What got you started?Listening to my dad's records: Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday. I taught myself guitar and started writing songs when I was nine. And I collected recorders – I ended up with about seven of them.What was your big breakthrough?Recording a Welsh-language song with [singer and guitarist] Mark Roberts at a studio called Grassroots in Cardiff, which was avai...

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