Editing Gruff Rhys (section)

== Early life ==
Rhys was born 18 July 1970 in [[Haverfordwest]], [[Wales]].<ref name="Indi2014" /> He has a brother and a sister; his father was [[Ioan Bowen Rees]] (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999), a "poet, essayist, polemicist, mountaineer, internationalist ... and a White Robe Druid of the Gorsedd of Bards".<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jun/07/guardianobituaries1|title=Obituaries – Ioan Bowen Rees|last=Perrin|first=Jim|date=7 June 1999|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=24 February 2010|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ioan-bowen-rees-1091929.html|title=Obituary: Ioan Bowen Rees|author=Meic Stephens|date=9 May 1999|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=7 May 2014|author-link=Meic Stephens}}</ref> Bowen Rees "campaigned all his life for Welsh rights, language and culture" although he did not believe in the narrow view of nationalism, glorifying one country over another, rather that the "battle for Wales is the battle for all small nations, all small communities, all individuals in the age of genocide".<ref name="Guardian" /><ref name="MM">{{Citation|title=I Like The Idea of Creating Cultural Havoc|date=19–25 January 2000|journal=[[Melody Maker]]}}</ref> Rhys's mother, Margaret Wynn Meredith, shared his father's love of writing and was a poet.<ref name="MM" />

Rhys was educated at [[Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen]], [[Bethesda, Wales|Bethesda]], [[Gwynedd]], [[North Wales]] and was awarded a degree in art at [[Manchester Metropolitan University]].