Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall (born 20 December 1987) is a British podcaster, political commentator and musician. He is the former banjoist and lead guitarist of the folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers. With Mumford & Sons, Marshall won multiple awards, including two Grammys and two Brit Awards. He has performed music with different supergroups and collaborated with Baaba Maal and HVOB. After leaving Mumford & Sons, Marshall hosted an interview podcast Marshall Matters on The Spectator from 2021 to 2023. In 2024, he launched his own politics and culture podcast, The Winston Marshall Show.
Early life and family
Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall was born in Wandsworth, London, on 20 December 1987.a His father is Paul Marshall, a British hedge fund manager who co-founded the Marshall Wace hedge fund and is the co-owner of GB News. His mother, Sabina de Balkany, is French and comes from a genteel European Jewish family. He has a sister, singer/songwriter Giovanna. His maternal grandmother was a novelist and property developer Molly de Balkany fr, one of the first female property developers in France; Marshall's maternal great-uncle was the developer and collector Robert Zellinger de Balkany fr.
