TheGrefg

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cánovas and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.

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,^[4] and is among the most-followed Twitch channels with over 11.8 million followers on that platform.

TheGrefg
David Cánovas in 2021
Born	David Cánovas Martínez (1997-04-24) 24 April 1997 (age 28) Alhama de Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
Occupations	YouTuber Twitch streamer
YouTube information
Channel	TheGrefg
Years active	2012–present
Genre	Gaming
Subscribers	18.8 million[1]
Views	6.9 billion[1]
Associated acts	Ibai Llanos El Rubius Willyrex Fernanfloo
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers 10,000,000 subscribers
Twitch information
Channel	TheGrefg
Followers	12.1 million[2]
Kick information
Channel	TheGrefg
Followers	337 thousand[3]
Last updated: 13 October 2024

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.^[5] This record was broken by Ibai Llanos in 2022 when a total of 3.3 million viewers arrived during La Velada del año 2.^[6]

Career

David Cánovas Martínez^[7] was born on 24 April 1997,^[8] in Alhama de Murcia, Murcia, Spain,^[9] according to several interviews, he began to be interested in the subject of video games since he was a child,^[7] he started his YouTube channel on 30 January 2012,^[10] when he was 14 years old.^[11]

In 2018 he moved to Andorra to pay less taxes.^[12][7] 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.^[13] In October 2020, Forbes Spain included Cánovas as the sixth top influencer in Spain for the year,^[14][15] In April 2021, was again included on a cover of the magazine Forbes.^[16][17]

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.^[18]

Writing career

Martínez has written three books; The first book titled "Rescate en White Angel (The G-Squad)” was released in 2017,^[19] the second, titled “Los secretos de YouTube” was released in 2018,^[11] 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”.^[20]

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.^[21] Martínez was one of the presenters along with Willyrex and El Rubius of the program Top Gamers Academy,^[22] In January 2022, he held the ESLAND Awards ceremony,^[23] in which several Spanish-speaking content creators would receive their recognition.^[24][25]

Since 2021 he is the owner of Grefito SLU, a real estate company in Escaldes.^[26] An 80-year woman received an eviction denunciation from Grefito, the company lost the trial,^[27] and the building was put on sale.^[28][29]

Personal life

In 2018 he started a relationship with Gemma Gallardo,^[30] but they split up in the summer of 2022.^[31] Then he dated with Sofía Fitness.^[32]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2018	Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Spanish Influencer	Nominated	[33]
2019	The Game Awards	Content Creator of the Year	Nominated	[34]
2021	Esports Awards	Streamer of the Year	Nominated	[35]
	The Game Awards	Content Creator of the Year	Nominated	[36]

See also

• List of most-followed Twitch channels