David Cánovas Martínez (born 24 April 1957), better known as TheGrefg or simply Grefg, is a Spanish

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and

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. With 17.7 million subscribers, it is one of the most-subscribed Spanish YouTube channels, while he also has the eighth most-followed Twitch channel with over 10.2 million followers. TheGrefg used to hold the Guinness World Record for the most concurrent viewers for a Twitch stream, after achieving a peak concurrent viewership of 2,468,668 during the live presentation of his own ''

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'' outfit, on 11 January 2021. This record was broken by Ibai Llanos in 2022, when a total of 3.3 million viewers arrived during ''La velada del año 2''.

Career

David Cánovas Martínez was born on 24 April 1997, in

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, Murcia, Spain, according to several interviews, he began to be interested in the subject of video games since he was a child, he started his YouTube channel on 30 January 2012, when he was 14 years old. In 2018 he moved to

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to pay less taxes. In January 2020, Epic Games announced that a TheGrefg-based cosmetic outfit would be added to ''

'' alongside other real-life personalities associated with the game such as

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. In October 2020, ''

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'' Spain included Cánovas as the sixth top

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in Spain for the year, in April 2021 was again included in a cover of the magazine

Writing career

Martínez has written three books; The first book titled "Rescate en White Angel (The G-Squad)" was released in 2017, the second titled "Los secretos de YouTube" was released in 2018, and the third book titled "Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre esports" made in collaboration with Goorgo and MethodzSick and released on 4 June 2019, tells the "secrets to succeed in e-Sports".

Other works

To date he has released three songs. The first one, titled "Gracias a ti" was to celebrate his 4 million subscribers. Again, to celebrate 10 million subscribers he released a song in collaboration with Zarcort and Piter-G. Lastly, to present his ''

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'' series ''Calvaland'' released a song titled as the same. Martínez was one of the presenters along with Willyrex and

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of the program Top Gamers Academy, In January 2022, he held the ESLAND Awards ceremony, in which several Spanish-speaking content creators would receive their recognition.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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