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Spanish YouTuber & Twitch streamer (born 1997) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Cánovas Martínez (Spanish: [daˈβið ˈkanoβas maɾˈtineθ], born 24 April 1997), better known as TheGrefg or simply Grefg, is a Spanish YouTuber and Twitch streamer. With 18.2 million subscribers, he has one of the most-subscribed Spanish YouTube channels,[3] and is among the most-followed Twitch channels with over 11.8 million followers on that platform.
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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 Fortnite outfit on 11 January 2021.[4] This record was broken by Ibai Llanos in 2022 when a total of 3.3 million viewers arrived during La Velada del año 2.[5]
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David Cánovas Martínez[6] was born on 24 April 1997,[7] in Alhama de Murcia, Murcia, Spain,[8] according to several interviews, he began to be interested in the subject of video games since he was a child,[6] he started his YouTube channel on 30 January 2012,[9] when he was 14 years old.[10]
In 2018 he moved to Andorra to pay less taxes.[11][6] In January 2020, Epic Games announced that a TheGrefg-based cosmetic outfit would be added to Fortnite alongside other real-life personalities associated with the game, such as Ninja and Loserfruit.[12] In October 2020, Forbes Spain included Cánovas as the sixth top influencer in Spain for the year,[13][14] In April 2021, was again included on a cover of the magazine Forbes.[15][16]
He will fight at La Velada del Año V against Westcol, which will be held on 26 July 2025 at Estadio La Cartuja in Sevilla.[17]
Writing career
Martínez has written three books; The first book titled "Rescate en White Angel (The G-Squad)” was released in 2017,[18] the second, titled “Los secretos de YouTube” was released in 2018,[10] 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”.[19]
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 Minecraft series Calvaland released a song titled the same.[20] Martínez was one of the presenters along with Willyrex and El Rubius of the program Top Gamers Academy,[21] In January 2022, he held the ESLAND Awards ceremony,[22] in which several Spanish-speaking content creators would receive their recognition.[23][24]
Since 2021 he is the owner of Grefito SLU, a real estate company in Escaldes.[25] An 80-year woman received an eviction denunciation from Grefito, the company lost the trial,[26] and the building was put on sale.[27][28]
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Personal life
In 2018 he started a relationship with Gemma Gallardo,[29] but they split up in the summer of 2022.[30] Then he dated with Sofía Fitness.[31]
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