Matty Healy Biography

Matty Healy (Matthew Healy) is an English musician, well known as the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band 1975. He is also known as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock group.

Matty Healy Age | Birthday

Matthew was born on 8th of April 1989, in Manchester, England. He is 29 years old as of 2018.

Matty Healy Height

Matty stands at a height of 5 ft 9 in or 175 cm.

Matty Healy  Family | Dad | Brother

Matthew was born to a soap opera actress Denise Welch and a television actor Tim Healy, his family lived a fast life with lots of socializing with actors and musicians. Healy began playing the drums with his father at the age of four and developed a liking for music. His parents separated and she got married to Lincoln Townley, He was raised along with his younger brother named Louis with whom he grew up in Newcastle and Cheshire. His brother got inspired by him and is presently performing music on YouTube.

Matty Healy Wife | Dating | Married

Matthew was in a long-term relationship with model Gemma Janes but they later broke up in 2014. she is also rumored that he had an association with Taylor Swift. The pair as well did not progress further than just an acquaintance.

Matty Healy Education

Matthew was enrolled at Wilmslow High School where he began jamming with his friends, Ross MacDonald, Adam Hann and George Daniel in 2004. They group began by playing punk – rock and pop covers before they started writing their own music at the age of about 15. He did not do too well in school and finished with three GCSEs. He looked upon schooling as an impediment to his music and did not want to study further.

His mother insisted on him attending Music College, but he did not last beyond three months in the college. He was busy writing songs and took up a job in a Chinese restaurant to make some pocket money. During this period he developed a cocaine problem that took him a long time to handle.

Matty Healy Career

Healy began his career with playing drums for ‘The 1975’. He later took on as the role of lead singer and guitarist after their lead singer left the band to form his own group. His band members included Adam Hann as the lead guitarist, Ross MacDonald on the bass and George Daniel playing the drums.

The group produced their first EP, ‘Facedown’, that was released in 2012 and got to be aired on national radio, with the lead single, ‘The City’, it became a hit on BBC Radio 1. Them rising to fame came as a shock to them as they were making music more for fun than as a profession.

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They produced their second EP, ‘Sex’, in the same year followed and later the single ‘Chocolate’ that was ranked 19th on the UK Singles Chart. ‘The grope had made their mark by now and it got to release their first album in 2013, the self-titled debut album that reached was ranked 1st  on the UK Albums Chart. The album included a remake of their number ‘sex’ that was premiered on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1. It as well got premiered on YouTube and gained a large fan following.

Matthew together with his bandmates made an international tour of Ireland and the USA to make their album popular album during the same period. They went on touring the UK and played at various festivals that included a performance in the Royal Albert Hall. The band later rose to fame and was invited to play with the ‘Rolling Stones’ in Hyde Park in July 2013. They as well performed on stage at the 2013 Reading and Leeds Festival.

The band released their second and third albums ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It’ and ‘Music for Cars’ followed with renewed success. The albums got ranked 1st on the UK Albums Chart and featured on the US Billboard 200. The albums were different from their contemporaries, in that each song was sung in a different style.

Matthew Healy Net Worth

Matthew has an estimated net worth of $15 million.

Matty Healy Style

Matt style resembles that of a gothic-hipster found roaming the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. The hipster style is surprisingly put together, however from the outside looking in. He spends almost  $300 dollars on jeans alone and he owns 7 of the same pair. His small framed bloke, so most of his jeans are skinny-fit in order to elongate his 5’8″ stature. He typically wears the designer brand J.W. Anderson 90% of the time and has recently discovered his love for trainers, which he says is a lifesaver on stage. See, it’s cool to sometimes switch things up – being stylish doesn’t necessarily mean you have to give up comfortability.

Matty Healy Tattoos | Chest Tattoo

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Matty Healy Twitter

https://twitter.com/Truman_Black

Matty Healy Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/BvEl7r4A3Hr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Matty Healy Quotes

• Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.
• Everything that we’ve ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there’s a certain intricacy in that.
• There’s a lot that’s happened in my life that maybe I didn’t want to happen, but I suppose it’s led me to exactly where I am now.
• I’d kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.
• People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that’s not true – it’s that we have nothing to die for.
• The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.
• I think I couldn’t give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.
• Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy
• One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said ‘to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette’
• I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

Matty Healy: ‘Art, sex, drugs, religion. It’s just about losing yourself’ | British GQ

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