Tuesday 21 June 2022 08:31 AM Mumford & Sons' lead singer Marcus Mumford 'launching solo career' trends now
Mumford & Sons' lead singer Marcus Mumford is launching a solo career, according to a new report.
The star, 35, who has played in the folk rock band since 2007 alongside Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane, is said to have made his solo announcement while playing at a Spotify bash at a villa in the French Riviera on Monday.
The announcement comes 12 months after banjoist Winston Marshall, 34, quit the group after he was pilloried by a 'viral mob' for the 'sin' of praising a right wing reporter on social media.
No flame burns forever: Mumford & Sons' lead singer Marcus Mumford is launching a solo career, according to a new report (pictured May 2022)
Page Six reports that Winston, who shares two children with wife Carey Mulligan, told the party that he was performing new music for the first time, which would be available on Spotify.
A guest told the website: 'He just said today is day one for his next thing.'
Mailonline has contacted representatives for Marshall and Spotify for comment.
The band's last album - Delta - was released in 2018 and reached number two in the UK album charts and topped the US Billboard 200. They released single, Blind Leading The Blind in 2019.
Acclaimed: The star, 35, is said to have made his solo announcement while playing at a Spotify bash at a villa in the French Riviera on Monday (pictured with former member Winston Marshall, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett in 2019)
Mumford & Sons shot to fame in 2009 with the release of debut album, Sigh No More, which peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200.
Subsequent albums Babel and Wilder Mind both debuted at number one in the UK and US, with Babel becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade.
Sigh No More won the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and scored six Grammy nominations.
The band were rocked last June with the departure of Marshall.
In a 1,263-word essay on Medium, Marshall described how his 'innocuous' endorsement of Andy Ngo's book on far-Left extremist group Antifa
