Christine Primrose ( gd, Cairistìona Primrose; born 17 February 1950) is a

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singer and music teacher. She was born in

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, but she currently lives on the

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. In interviews Primrose has stated that she has been singing since she was a small child, which is very typical in her family. She won a gold medal in sean-nós at the

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in 1974 and an award at the 1978

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, and, as was not common at the time, she took a degree in traditional Gaelic music, and she has been performing all around the world, especially in North America, Australia, New Zealand and in Europe. For example, she was at the Smithsonian Folklife Music Festival in

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with

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. Besides this, she was a member of Mac-Talla, and she has presented television and radio programmes. According to

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magazine, her first album became "a classic for its generation". It was re-released on CD in 1993. At the time, Temple had reportedly been told that "no one was interested in that aelic music. Besides her performance work, Primrose has been working at

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig () (Great Barn of Ostaig) is a public higher education college situated in the Sleat peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye, with an associate campus at Bowmore on the island of Islay, Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle (the ...

since 1982, the year that the school began to offer full-time courses. At first she was a secretary, and since 1993 she has taught in the course Gaelic and Traditional Music (BA) and in short courses. She has complained that "bias... resulted in some of Scotland's finest musicians being treated as little more than ' noble savages'".

Achievements

* Gold medal in traditional singing at the

in 1974 *

1978. * ‘Gaelic Singer of the Year’ at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards of 2009. *

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in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List

Records

* ''Àite Mo Ghaoil'' (1982) * ''Quiet Tradition'' (with

) (1990) * ''Mairidh Gaol is Ceòl'', (as part of Mac-Talla) (1994) * S Tu Nam Chuimhne'' (1987) * ''Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraidh'' (2001) * ''Gràdh is Gonadh'' (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Primrose, Christine 1950 births Living people 21st-century Scottish women singers Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Scottish Gaelic singers People from the Isle of Lewis 20th-century Scottish women singers