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Biography  The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel} rose with astonishing
speed to the top ranks of international operatic stardom in the
1990s. He is known for a big, warm voice, intelligent and
dramatically apt portrayals, a six-foot-three-inch frame and
those intangibles that add up to star presence.  He was born
Bryn Terfel Jones} and was brought up in a small village near
Snowdonia, speaking Welsh. Even as a small child he was busy
singing; he went to various eisteddfods (singing competitions)
throughout Wales, his supportive mother, Nesta, chauffeuring him
around. He used the money he won to buy soccer shoes. The
eisteddfods taught him to face the stage calmly. "When I went to
college I was streets ahead of others because I was used to
facing the public," he says. He was awarded a scholarship when
he applied to London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His
teachers there were Arthur Reck