Wynne Evans

Wynne Evans is probably best known as Gio Compario in the GoCompare adverts. However, Wynne is also a professional operatic tenor known internationally. He has sung as lead tenor at many of the UK’s leading opera houses. These include the Royal Opera in London’s Covent Garden and with English and Welsh National Opera.

It was just over ten years ago when Wynne’s face and voice suddenly became known to a much wider audience. That was when he started appearing in adverts for finance and insurance comparison web site GoCompare. The company had only started up three years earlier in 2006. It was probably no coincidence that the GoCompare company headquarters were based in Newport in South Wales. This was only a few miles down the road from where Wynne now stays in Cadiff.

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Wynne Evans’ voice is now so well known. The advertising campaign remains to this day, one of the most successful TV and Radio ever to grace our screens and airwaves. Wynne even acquired a name for his character, Gio Compario. However, after three years of the adverts, they had become so well known, people were starting to develop a sort of love/hate relationship with them. The company then decided to change the format slightly and launched a new “Saving the Nation” campaign. This was a series of new adverts where a number of famous sporting celebrities and also Professor Stephen Hawking tried to kill Gio off. The idea was one of them would succeed and save the Nation from ever having to listen to him again.

But, you can’t put a good advert down, when in 2015 Gio was back. This time, singing his heart out to huge stadium audiences with the words “He’s Back” at the end of the adverts.

Throughout Wynne’s time on TV and Radio, Wynne continued to sing professionally. He still sings on behalf of Welsh Rugby at their international games held at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Wynne is still a regular singer on radio with a number of albums available. His first album was A Song in My Heart. It was released in 2011 and within a week it was Number 1 in the UK Classical Charts.

You can now book Wynne Evans as an after dinner speaker and if you are lucky, or unlucky depending on how you feel about his adverts, he might sing one song. He is a great orator and very funny with it. He never fails to deliver for his clients and is always happy to take a brief.

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