Caryl Parry Jones
Shows
Côr Cymru (judge/critic)
Perfect Pitch (team captain)
Wawffactor (series producer/vocal coach)
Y Briodas Fawr (participant)
Biography
Omnipresent Welsh singer-songwriter, presenter, actress and comedienne, with a career in Welsh entertainment spanning over 50 years.
Originally from the village of Ffynnongroyw in Flintshire, Caryl first emerged as part of a trio of Welsh pop and rock groups, including Sidan, Injaroc, and most famously, Bando, before going solo.
She appeared in a slew of comedy shows for S4C and HTV spanning the decades, before graduating to the wireless, where she currently presents the late show on BBC Radio Cymru.
And she's still had time to produce Wawffactor and appear on a few quiz shows as well...
Trivia
Also known as 'CPJ'.
Caryl won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Radio Cymru Rock and Pop Awards.
Along with 'Bando', she performed all of the songs in the the 1982 Can i Gymru (Song for Wales) contest, including the winner - Nid Llwynog Oedd Yr Haul ("The Sun Was Not a Fox").
Caryl was the Children's Poet Laureate for Wales for 2007/8.