Vincent Paul Garbutt (20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017)[2] was an English folk singer and songwriter.

Garbutt was born in Coral Street, South Bank, Middlesbrough, England, the son of an English father and an Irish mother.

[3] Although his first live performances were in a pop covers band called The Mystics, he discovered folk music while he was still at school and began visiting and performing at the Rifle Club in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough, and later at Eston Folk Club closer to his home [citation needed].

With the rich repertoire of songs he had amassed, he and five friends spent the first summer busking his way around the bars of Spain's Mediterranean coast and on to Morocco via Gibraltar.

[4] Back in England in 1972 he recorded his first album for Bill Leader, The Valley of Tees, which established him as a singer-songwriter.

In his recuperation period he worked on his album Persona … Grata which was launched at The Sage Gateshead on 6 October 2005.