Tom Gray (activist)

Tom Gray (born 1 January 1977) is a Mercury Prize-winning British songwriter, composer, and activist. Early He was born on 1 January 1977 in Southport. He became a founding member of the rock band Gomez, the founder of the Broken Record campaign. and the elected Chair of the Ivors Academy. He is an elected Council Member of PRS For Music and sits on the board of UK Music. He is a UK Labour Party activist based in Brighton & Hove, and a member of the Musicians’ Union. Musical work Gray is a founding member and one of three vocalists in the UK indie rock band Gomez. With Gomez, he won the Mercury Prize in 1998. In 2016 their winning album, Bring It On, was voted BBC Radio 6 Music listeners’ favourite ever Mercury winner to date. The band went on to enjoy five UK Top 40 albums. As a composer, Gray has worked in film, theatre and television. He wrote the score for the first season of In My Skin, a comedy-drama series on the BBC and Hulu. He has also composed for the adaptation of Danny Champion of the World as a stage musical. He was the recipient of the 2022 Unsung Hero Award presented by the Music Producer’s Guild UK. and is a signatory to the ‘Music Declares Emergency’ climate decla