David Cánovas Martínez (, born 24 April 1997), better known as TheGrefg or simply Grefg, is a Spanish

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and

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. With 18.2 million subscribers, he has one of the most-subscribed Spanish YouTube channels, and is among the most-followed Twitch channels with over 11.8 million followers on that platform. TheGrefg used to hold the

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for the most concurrent viewers for a Twitch stream after achieving a peak concurrent viewership of 2,468,668 during the live presentation of his ''

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'' outfit on 11 January 2021. This record was broken by

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in 2022 when a total of 3.3 million viewers arrived during ''La Velada del año 2''.

Career

David Cánovas Martínez was born on 24 April 1997, in Alhama de Murcia, Murcia, Spain, according to several interviews, he began to be interested in the subject of video games since he was a child, he started his YouTube channel on 30 January 2012, when he was 14 years old. In 2018 he moved to

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to pay less taxes. In January 2020,

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announced that a TheGrefg-based cosmetic outfit would be added to ''

'' alongside other real-life personalities associated with the game, such as

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and Loserfruit. In October 2020, ''

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'' Spain included Cánovas as the sixth top

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in Spain for the year, In April 2021, was again included on a cover of the magazine

. He will fight at La Velada del Año V against Westcol, which will be held on 26 July 2025 at Estadio La Cartuja in

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Writing career

Martínez has written three books; The first book titled "Rescate en White Angel (The G-Squad)” was released in 2017, the second, titled “Los secretos de YouTube” was released in 2018, and the third book titled "Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre esports” made in collaboration with Goorgo and MethodzSick and released on 4 June 2019, tells the “secrets to succeed in e-Sports”.

Other works

To date, he has released three songs. The first one, titled "Gracias a ti” was to celebrate his 4 million subscribers. Again, to celebrate 10 million subscribers, he released a song in collaboration with Zarcort and Piter-G. Lastly, to present his ''

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'' series ''Calvaland'' released a song titled the same. Martínez was one of the presenters along with Willyrex and

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of the program Top Gamers Academy, In January 2022, he held the

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ceremony, in which several Spanish-speaking content creators would receive their recognition. Since 2021 he is the owner of Grefito SLU, a

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in Escaldes. An 80-year woman received an eviction denunciation from Grefito, the company lost the trial, and the building was put on sale.

Personal life

In 2018 he started a relationship with Gemma Gallardo, but they split up in the summer of 2022. Then he dated with Sofía Fitness.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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{{Authority control People from Bajo Guadalentín Spanish gaming YouTubers Spanish-language YouTubers Living people 21st-century Spanish people YouTube vloggers Spanish Twitch (service) streamers 1997 births Spanish emigrants to Andorra