Trefor Goronwy (born Trevor J. Goronwy, 23 August 1960 – February 2024) was an English vocalist, bass guitarist, guitarist, and percussionist. He joined

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for their final European tour in 1982, and continued to work with drummer Charles Hayward and soundman Stephen Rickard in the group Camberwell Now. He also worked as a sound technician with groups such as

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, Towering Inferno, David Thomas and Two Pale Boys,

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and the Tuvan throat-singing ensemble

Huun-Huur-Tu Huun-Huur-Tu ( ; ) are a music group from Tuva, a Russian federative republic situated on the Mongolia–Russia border. Their music includes throat singing, in which the singers sing both a note and its overtones, thus producing two or three ...

, whose first album he recorded in

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. After several years spent in

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, he worked on recordings featuring Tuvan and Kazakh traditional instruments, particularly the

igil The ''igil'' ( Tuvan: игил) is a two- stringed Tuvan musical instrument, played by bowing the strings. (It is called "ikili" in Western Mongolia.) The neck and lute-shaped sound box are usually made of a solid piece of pine or larch. The ...

and kobyz. Goronwy was born in

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on 23 August 1960. His sister was self-help author Lynda Field (née Goronwy, 1952–2020). Trefor Goronwy died in February 2024, at the age of 63.

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