Matthew Good is an experienced rock musician from Canada who has been producing great music on and off as part of the Matthew Good Band and also as a solo artist since the mid-1990s. He didn’t find much success in the US but has earned a loyal following in Canada. Matthew regularly tours with other popular rock bands performing at sold-out rock concerts. Throughout his life, the veteran musician has maintained mental health and the political activist has demonstrated exemplary resilience, creating critically and commercially acclaimed music despite intense physical and emotional personal struggles.

Born name

Matthew Frederick Robert Gut

nickname

Matt

Sun sign

Krebs

Place of birth

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Residence

Vancouver, Canada

nationality

training

Matthew Good graduated from Centennial Secondary School , Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1989. He then enrolled in a community college to study art, but soon dropped out.

occupation

Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Political & Mental Health Activist, Blogger/Author

family

• Father – Robert Good
• Mother – unknown
• Siblings – He has one brother.

Manager

Jeff Craib and Kathleen Reid, The Feldman Agency, Vancouver / Toronto, Canada

Genre

Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic

instruments

Vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums

labels

A & M Records, Warner Music Kanada, Universal Music Kanada, Darktown

To build

Average

Height

6ft or 183cm

weight

79 kg or 174 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Matthew Good has dated –

1. Jennifer Meischl (1999-2006) – Matthew began dating a girl named Jennifer Meischl from his hometown and after nearly four years of marriage, they married in 2003. At first, his first wife seemed to have a calming influence on Good, as he is beautiful for his thin body gained 10 pounds. But in 2006, Jennifer decided to leave him for another man, who blinded the singer for many months. He even posted a video of himself throwing his wedding ring into the sea and pouring out his heart on his ex-wife in a scathing blog post, which he completed within hours.
2. Raeleigh Jane Van Bruegel (2009-2017) – Matthew dated photographer and travel blogger Raeleigh was married for a year before the couple married in April 2010. At the time, she had a 2-year-old daughter named Avery Grace from a previous marriage. Matthew immediately rose to the role of fatherhood and after having two more children with Raleigh, Thomas MacDonald Good (born February 2011) and Elizabeth Anne Good (born December 2012), he settled in a stable home for a number of years life down. But the couple split in June 2017 and Raeleigh moved on and started dating a realtor named Jeff Inglis. Matthew probably spends his time with his kids three weekends a month and frequently expresses his longing for his kids on social media.
3. Hayley Eve Mather (2018-Present) – Musician and painter Hayley EveMather and Matthew started dating in 2018. This was confirmed by Hayley on her Instagram. Hayley also has a daughter named Elsie from a previous marriage.

race/ethnicity

White

He is of English descent.

hair colour

Dark Brown (Natural)

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Type of glasses with Buddy Holly frame
• Receding hairline
• He usually wears stubble or a goatee
• Warm singing voice with natural vibrato

brand promotion

No available records of endorsements.

Religion

• Not religious, but spiritual
• As an active blogger, Matthew Good has shared that he uses the word “god” as a symbol of a higher power and does not adhere to the teachings of any particular religion.

Known for

• Fronting a band in his name, Matthew Good Band (MGB), recognized as one of Canada’s most successful alternative rock bands of the 1990s
• The singer experienced the same success with a solo career in the first decade of the new millennium (2003-2009) and has since created more and more new music.

First album

His first album with his band, Matthew Good Band (MGB) was Last of the Ghetto Astronauts which was released in 1995.

Good’s debut solo album was Lawine (2003), several of which featured the added sound of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra .

First TV show

He first appeared as a guest in an episode of the comic series Big Sound in 2001.

Personal trainer

• Matthew’s health was marked by intense suffering during the first three and a half decades of his life.
• Music, writing, and painting offered him a creative way to ignore the emotional anxiety and physical discomfort of his undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
• As a child, the singer was hyperactive and difficult to control. When a doctor prescribed him a drug for hyperactivity, it killed all his emotional responses and alarmed his mother, who later took him off the drug.
• As a teenager, Good shared that he would not sleep for days and typically spent a lot of time in isolation either painting or writing. When not working intensely on a creative project, Matthew would often fall into a state of depression. He also went through a period of alcohol abuse.
• From 1991 to 2001, Matthew’s music career took over his life and he found an excuse to ignore his yet undiagnosed illness for another decade.
• He often suffered from severe anxiety that caused him to throw up any food he ate. Doctors misjudged his mental health problem and prescribed him an ulcer medication that made his symptoms worse.
• Hence, in his 20s, Matthew fueled his body with cigarettes and coffee. He is often surprised to see photos of his youth since those years have blurred by. He typically weighed 61-65 kg or 134.5-143 lbs on a 6 foot tall frame.
• The singer covered his lanky frame in layers of clothing, but people around him continued to suspect he was a heroin addict.
• To make matters worse, he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in 2000 and had to quit smoking and have a throat operation to remove a lump from his vocal cord. Matthew spent 3 weeks in isolation in a hotel room to recover and write songs for his next album. The Audio of Being (2001), still battling food-related nausea, living on nutritional supplement bars, and unable to speak or sing throughout the period.
• After going solo in 2002, Good suffered another bout of manic anxiety and depression and was recommended a mild prescription of antidepressants. This helped him settle into his married life for a few years when he started sleeping and eating better and gained some weight.
• But the collapse of his first marriage renewed his anxiety attacks. Matthew became addicted to higher doses of antidepressants because he wanted to hide his mental state from the rest of the world and tried to work longer hours. This prepared him for the onset of the nervous breakdown he would experience in the near future.
• Good moved to Europe for 6 months and planned to write a book. But he returned home within days of having a panic attack.
• He moved into his parents’ house and one night after consuming steak and 2 cans of beer for dinner, he was found unconscious in his bedroom. It turned out that he had consumed 50 tablets of Ativan (an antidepressant) and was simultaneously consuming Gravol and Nyquil (over-the-counter medicine used to control sleep and nausea).
• After being hospitalized, Matthew was diagnosed with type 2 bipolarity .
• After getting psychiatric help and prescribed medication for his condition, Good shared that his emotional highs and lows, which previously fluctuated from a -10 to +10 scale, have stabilized to -3 to +3.
• The singer does not follow any formal exercise regime. He spends a lot of time outdoors with his children and not only has several dogs on his property, but also horses, a goose, a duck, chickens and rabbits. Taking care of the animals keeps him active even when he doesn’t feel like it.

Matthew Good favorite things

• sports – football
• Sports Team – Arsenal FC, London, UK
• Author – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Album cover – I Wish You Were Here (1975) by Pink Floyd
• Artist – Billy Bragg
• Female Singer – Nina Simone
• Male Singer – Tom Waits
• Concert – No Means No and DOA concert, Dead Kennedys concert
• Painter – Joan Miró (Spanish Surrealist Painter)
• Book – Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World written by Haruki Murakami

Matthew Good facts

1. Had he not been a musician, Matthew would have decided to become a history teacher.
2. At school, he was the classmate of retired Canadian soccer player Carlo Corazzin.
3. Matthew was introduced to the world of music when a local folk group asked him to write lyrics for their songs while he was still in high school.
4. At the age of 20, he developed a crush on actress Jennifer Connelly after watching her work in Career Opportunities (1991).
5. He also taught himself to play the guitar around the same age.
6. Matthew’s potential was first spotted by talent huntsman Brent Christensen at an open mic night at Simon Fraser University when he performed with guitarist Simon Woodcock.
7. Matthew Good Band’s albums Underdogs (1997-1998), which went platinum, and Schöne Nacht (1999-2000), which went double platinum, are considered to be his band’s best works.
8. Before taking a break in Canadian music, Matthew held several blue-collar jobs, such as pumping gas at a gas station and moving goods in the shipping/receiving area of ​​a department store.
9. One of his musical aspirations in the early years of his career was to open up to the English rock band. The who, and he managed to manifest that desire on two separate occasions.
10. Good likes to collect football shirts from different football teams from all over the world.
11. He was an active blogger from 1997 to 2000 and his blogs reflected his passion for politics and history which was later compiled into a book titled. At Last There’s Nothing More to Say (2001), published by Insomniac Press.
12. Matthew began his journey into the music industry as the lead singer of a folk band called The Rochester Kings . They produced a demo called… And on Closing which contained 5 songs with Fragrant Time Studios in December 1991.
13. In 2008, Good launched a new website called Dear San Diego where he published fictional diary entries for an extended period of time. The singer confessed that he is constantly motivated to write due to the emerging ridiculous patterns in society and the need to poke fun at people, including himself.
14. He is often wrongly credited with coining the popular Internet phrase “First World Problems,” first used by GK Payne in the late 1970s.
15. As of 2018, the singer has been nominated for the Juno Awards 21 times, of which he has won 4 times. Matthew made a conscious decision to boycott the Juno Awards and claims he never attended a ceremony. According to him, the Juno panel selects only Canadian artists who boast international fame and worldwide sales, and they do not fund original Canadian music on the grassroots.
16. Matthew Good deeply offended Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger when he remarked in an interview that their band was just a copy of other rock bands like Staind and Creed . In response, Chad told a Rolling Stone journalist that he liked Matthew Good least in the entire music business because his statement seemed like a cheap shot at their band, motivated by Good’s inability to recreate Nickelback ‘s success in the US .
17. He enjoys playing LEGO with his son and building challenging LEGO structures.
18. In March 2018, Matthew collapsed on stage while performing in Edmonton due to pneumonia. He was hospitalized but resumed his nationwide tour 3 days later.
19. Matthew supports the Canadian Mental Health Association and raises money for the organization by selling OK-branded merchandise on his official website.
20. To learn more about the artist, visit his official website @ matthewgood.org.
21. Follow Matthew Good on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.