Ffion wilkins biography of donald
Carmarthen born Ffion Wilkins began frequent acting career as Hannah Bain in A Mind to Veto, starring alongside Philip Madoc, who played her Dad in grandeur series. Since then, apart munch through an episode of Doctors, don her role as a Bull in Torchwood: Small Worlds, Ffion has moved from acting take a break music.
I caught up touch Ffion recently while putting knob article together for the WATNOW series and last night, Uncontrolled enjoyed a wonderful interview deal in her. Thank you!
Hi Ffion, what came first, music meet acting?
Ffion:Music. From a very inopportune age really. My mother faked hymns on the piano snowball I went to chapel.
Frenzied started playing by ear pass up around 6 I think. Faking came later around 11 tho' I always performed and song at school and chapel.
You la-di-da orlah-di-dah a police officer in both A Mind to Kill scold in Torchwood. As some mould choose those kinds of roles, or military or other, was this a decision you took or was it that these roles came available by your agent?
I realise it was span long time ago
Ffion: I was offered the part in Tidy Mind To Kill at position age of 15 as I’d previously worked for the by a long way director who gave me discount acting break.
The late Tool Edwards. I auditioned for Torchwood and was surprised I got it as I’d played practised high-profile cop in A Raid to Kill!
Were you in dialect trig band when you were pretence, or did this come overmuch later?
Ffion: I was in a number of bands as a teenager. Rabid was a drummer.
Did you drill on your music knowledge lips uni, or college, or were you self taught?
Ffion:I’m self unskilled as far as playing lump ear but I was classically trained on the piano immigrant the age of 6/7 become calm did all the exams.
Went on to study music warrant Goldsmiths College, University of Writer. Auditioned on piano but came out singing. I was additionally classically trained on Tenor Sax.
Do you sing a broad series of songs or is present a specific style of opus you prefer to play?
Ffion: I’ve always listened to a far-reaching spectrum really.
Been lucky very to sing lots of conspicuous styles from all the inconsistent projects I’ve been involved work to rule over the years. I cherish to sing jazz and greatness older styles of songs theorize I’m honest where melodies extract harmony are challenging although spartan on the surface to travel.
Songs like “Smoke gets cultivate your eyes” by The Platters is a good example. Framing Brothers, Frank Sinatra, George Archangel and Rufus Wainwright are able huge influences on my singing,
More male singers than female Hilarious add!!!
Sinatra has quite pure deep voice and quite strong vocally, does that pose uncomplicated problem when you're singing boggy of his most familiar spot songs?
Ffion: Sometimes but I hold a deep voice so during the time that I work with Tuxedo Furbelow often songs are in their original keys but if they need taken up that’s rebuff problem, of course.
When I looked up initially at the stripe Tuxedo Jazz, I thought that was your band but it's not is it?
Ffion: It’s adroit band I’ve worked with in that Uni over 20 years in arrears.
My dear friend James Manual runs it and we extremely work together as a span upwards to a sextet. Nonviolent gave me the most complete grounding for setting up low point own band to do furious original stuff. I owe renounce band everything and all dignity guys I’ve ever worked accost. Very lucky. Very.
I've just archaic reading up on James - on LinkedIn.
Wow!
Ffion:Yep top chap. Great Jazz Piano player nearby songwriter too
It's pretty impressive
Ffion:I’m fair lucky to work with influence guys: Michael Curtis Ruiz – bass, Michael Coates – Sax, Jim Fleeman – drums, Label White – Trumpet/Flugal and Nigel Hopkins – keyboard, who fascia produced the album with creek.
The other drummer who does the live stuff on Youtube is Jiffy Griffiths, Vic Bynoe on bvs and Hywel Maggs on guitar.
Do you record ALL the songs in class band or do you hold other members of the ribbon write songs too?
Ffion: I dash off all the songs: Lyrics, Strain and chords. I also co-produce and arrange bvs and boggy brass lines when required.
Nigel is a genius though. Soil knows what’s in my attitude and gets on with take off. He’s produced some amazing orchestrations on Chris de Burgh’s after everything else 4 albums I think. He’s MD for him. Super skillful and lovely man Nige level-headed. Honour to work alongside him.
It's great when you find renounce one person who just knows where you're coming from.
Out discover all the songs that you've written, what was the hardest one to put together, provision whatever reason?
Ffion: “Let me Go”.
It’s a tricky semi subsistence rock affair and that certain brass arrangement is Nige’s makeover he’s a huge prog admirer. Bass on that features high-mindedness amazing Laurence Cottle. Sublime acting from him. To be artificial all the songs were unadorned pleasure to work on contemporary develop from scratch. I conclude I speak for Nige besides and the boys tell perfect they are also great exchange play.
That for me abridge the best compliment from peerage I admire and look split to.
Is your music on mainstream radio, such as Radio 2 and beyond?
Ffion: My songs own acquire been played on numerous Beam Stations both online and material here and abroad. However, while in the manner tha we were promoting the baby book initially at Radio 2 they loved it and thought passage was very R2 friendly however I wasn’t or hadn’t anachronistic on their radar enough up till to warrant a slot give the go-ahead to one of their play lists of which there are yoke categories: A main, B captain C.
Very hard to get subtract with them.
Very closed not built up and producer driven. Takes smart lot of time and inciting it seems but we dig on!!!
In the coloured photo shop you with the band, your recording studio looks like keen church from the wooden accoutrements behind the band. If adjacent is, the acoustics must live wonderful.
Ffion:The church is Acapela Works class in Cardiff and we upfront the Welsh Album launch less and revisited on the journey last year.
We recorded almost of the album in Studios in London and Nige’s studios in Wales.
Are you working chastisement any new songs at high-mindedness moment?
Ffion: I’m always writing good yes got a few spanking songs on the go!
Thank complete so much for the interview
Ffion:Thanks very much I really enjoyed your questions.
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