Mercury Music Prize-nominated musician Burial has revealed his name to the public.
There has been much speculation about the UK-based dubstep producer's identity, but now it's emerged that his name is Will Bevan (see pic), and he's from South London.
His MySpace page was updated with the following statement yesterday:
"hi
for a while theres been some talk about who i am , but its not a big deal
i wanted to be unknown because i just want it to be all about the tunes.
over the last year the unknown thing become an issue so im not into it any more.
im a lowkey person and i just want to make some tunes, nothing else. my names will bevan, im from south london, im keeping my head down and just going to finish my next album, theres going to be a 12" maybe in the next few weeks too with 4 tunes. hope u like it, i'll try put a tune up later
sorry for any rubbish tunes i made in the past, ill make up for it
a big big thank you to anyone who ever supported me, liked my tunes or sent me messages, it means the world to me
big up everyone, take care, will ( burial )"
Burial's second album 'Untrue' is favourite to win the 2008 Mercury Music Prize, which will be announced on September 9th.