{"id":79319,"date":"2023-10-03T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=79319"},"modified":"2023-10-03T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:25:57","slug":"is-robert-del-naja-banksy-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/is-robert-del-naja-banksy-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Robert Del Naja Banksy? | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

HE\u2019S is the most famous graffiti artist in the world, but Banksy\u2019s true identity has never been revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Could Massive Attack\u2019s Robert Del Naja be Banksy? Here\u2019s what we know.<\/p>\n

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Who is Robert De Naja?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Best known as the founding member of the band Massive Attack, Robert Del Naja is a 52-year-old artist, activist and musician.<\/p>\n

Born in Brighton, to an Engish mother and Italian father, Robert was raised in Bristol, where he went to school in Filton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robert made his name as a graffiti artist around Bristol, before turning his hand to music.<\/p>\n

Robert, also referred to as 3D, was known locally for pioneering the stencil style also employed by Banksy.<\/p>\n

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He was even arrested twice in Bristol during the 1980s for graffiti and made to do community service.<\/p>\n

Robert formed Massive Attack in 1987 with fellow members of his previous group Wild Bunch, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s first album Blue Lines, released in 1991, was met with critical acclaim, and their third, Mezzanine, released in 1998, sold nearly 4 million copies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2009, Robert was awarded an Ivor Novello for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.<\/p>\n

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Is Robert Del Naja Banksy?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Banksy\u2019s identity has been kept secret since the early 90s.<\/p>\n

Robert Del Naja and Banksy have long been linked\u2014both are graffiti artists with well-known roots in Bristol, leading to speculation that the Massive Attack musician is the real Banksy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Firstly, DJ and former graffiti artist Goldie added fuel to the long-standing rumours that Robert was behind the mysterious street art in 2017 when he seemed to accidentally refer to Banksy as \u201cRobert\u201d.<\/p>\n

As a guest on Scroobius Pip\u2019s \u2018Distraction Pieces\u2019 podcast, talking about Banksy, Goldie said: \u201cNo disrespect to Robert, I think he is a brilliant artist. I think he has flipped the world of art over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some fans and theorists have even linked Massive Attack\u2019s tour dates with new Banksy street art.<\/p>\n

On the day a new Banksy appeared in Toronto, Massive Attack played a show in the city.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Banksy\u2019s \u2018The Street Is in Play\u2019 appeared in New York at the same time that Massive Attack were playing a four-night run of shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite denying the rumours, both Banksy and Del Naja have cited one another as artistic inspiration, and appear to be friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Addressing the scheduling coincidences, Robert told the Daily Mail: \u201cIt would be a good story but sadly not true. Wishful thinking, I think. He is a mate as well […] He\u2019s been to some of the gigs. It\u2019s purely a matter of logistics and coincidence, nothing more than that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Banksy has also denied the links.<\/p>\n

In an intro for '3D and the Art of Massive Attack', he wrote: \u201cWhen I was about 10 years old, a kid called 3D was painting the streets hard."<\/p>\n

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\u201c3D quit painting and formed the band Massive Attack, which may have been a good thing for him, but was a big loss for the city,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other people are rumoured to be Banksy, like Bristol-born Robin Gunningham, and the Gorillaz's Jamie Hewlett.<\/p>\n

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