As a child, he also received piano and guitar lessons, and practised music with Dik. He later said, "The reason for this dual identity was mainly to be understood by my peers but also to be accepted." He later commented that there were times of frustration for him growing up in a Catholic country, and this may have played a part in his musical development.Įvans received his initial formal education at St. During his childhood in Dublin, Evans talked in two different accents, using a Welsh accent at home and an Irish accent whenever he was outside. Around 1962, Garvin was offered a promotion which took the family to Dublin. The family initially lived in Chadwell Heath. Evans has an elder brother called Richard (often called Dik) and a younger sister called Gillian, and is a cousin of actress Juliet Aubrey. His father was an engineer who worked for the local electricity board, and subsequently worked for the electronics company Plessey.
Several music publications have ranked the Edge among the greatest guitarists of all time.ĭavid Howell Evans was born on 8 August 1961 at the Barking Maternity Hospital in Barking, Essex, the second child of Welsh parents Garvin and Gwenda Evans. As a member of U2, the Edge has won 22 Grammy Awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He has collaborated with U2 bandmate Bono on several projects, including songs for Roy Orbison, Tina Turner, and Martin Garrix, and the soundtracks to the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and the Royal Shakespeare Company's London stage adaptation of A Clockwork Orange. He co-founded Music Rising, a charity to support musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. The Edge met his second wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.Īs a member of U2 and as an individual, the Edge has campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes. With U2, the Edge has also played keyboards, produced their records Zooropa (1993) and Songs of Surrender (2023), and occasionally served as co-lyricist. Over the years, the Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. They eventually became one of the most successful acts in popular music, with albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. His understated style of guitar playing, a signature of U2's music, is distinguished by chiming timbres, use of rhythmic delay, drone notes, harmonics, and an extensive use of effects units.īorn in England to Welsh parents and raised in Ireland, the Edge formed the band that would become U2 with his classmates at Mount Temple Comprehensive School and his elder brother Dik in 1976. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 14 studio albums with them as well as one solo record. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band U2. David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge, is an English-born Irish musician, singer, and songwriter.
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