Marlon Williams
About the Artist
New Zealand’s Marlon Williams possesses one of the greatest voices of his generation. His effortlessly distinctive tone and heartstring-plucking vibrato have garnered widespread love around the world. Williams draws on folk and country traditions - often compared to Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley - but what makes him so special is his unique ability to traverse genres on both his award winning records, and in his famously captivating live shows.
Marlon Williams grew up in the port town of Lyttelton, in the South Island of New Zealand. After performing with his high-school band The Unfaithful Ways and as a duo with Delaney Davidson, he launched his award-winning solo career with his 2015 debut Marlon Williams, and followed it with Make Way For Love in 2018, and the 2022 record My Boy.
Williams has also won five New Zealand Music Awards, the coveted APRA Silver Scroll Award, and was hand picked by director Bradley Cooper to appear in Academy Award-winning film A Star Is Born, with his rising acting carer now including roles in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth, The Beautiful Lie, The Rehearsal, True History of the Kelly Gang, Lone Wolf, and Bad Behaviour.