David Cánovas Martínez (Spanish:[daˈβiðˈkanoβasmaɾˈtineθ], 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,[2] and is among the most-followed Twitch channels with over 11.8 million followers on that platform.
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.[3] This record was broken by Ibai Llanos in 2022 when a total of 3.3 million viewers arrived during La Velada del año 2[4] and also in 2023 when a total of 3.4 million viewers arrived during La Velada del año 3.[5]
Career
David Cánovas Martínez[6] was born on 24 April 1997,[7]inAlhama 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]
Writing career
Martínez has written three books; The first book titled "Rescate en White Angel (The G-Squad)” was released in 2017,[17] 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”.[18]
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 as the same.[19] Martínez was one of the presenters along with Willyrex and El Rubius of the program Top Gamers Academy,[20] In January 2022, he held the ESLAND Awards ceremony,[21] in which several Spanish-speaking content creators would receive their recognition.[22][23]
