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Moira Anderson (born 5 June 1938) is a Scottish singer.


Life and career

Moira Anderson was born on 5 June 1938 in Kirkintilloch,
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, Scotland. She was educated at
Lenzie Academy Lenzie Academy is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The catchment area covers Lenzie, Auchinloch and southern parts of Kirkintilloch. Senior management team The school is manage ...
, She then attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, before getting her big break in the media after a successful audition at the
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. She landed her first job in the media, presenting the
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''
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'' where she sang with some prestigious names from the world of opera. She went on to make many appearances in the TV series ''
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'' hosted by Andy Stewart. She subsequently hosted her own television show, the popular ''Moira Anderson Sings'' on BBC1 in 1968. By 1970 she had signed up with the Decca Record Company, performed at the
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and was hosting another show ''
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'' which ran for a decade from 1969. She is renowned for her charity work. In her early career Anderson made frequent appearances alongside fellow Scottish music stars, Kenneth McKellar and other Scottish stars. The pairing was celebrated in the 1971 "
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" spoof sketch (Programme 3, 1st Series) featuring "Kenneth Anderson" and "Moira McKellar", in which
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's Ken described
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's (rather hefty) Moira as "that beautiful lump of Dundee cake". In the early 1980s she made a successful album of
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with Sir
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. She recorded " A Perfect Day" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. Her musical directors over the years have included Peter Knight, Peggy O'Keefe,
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and
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. She has recorded many albums, including an Ivor Novello collection, conducted by Robin Stapleton, and made many appearances on the BBC TV's popular, long running series, '' The Good Old Days''. She received an OBE in July 1970. In 2010, she sang two songs at the funeral of Sir
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. Anderson lives, as of 2016, in retirement on the
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with her husband of over 50 years, Stuart Macdonald.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Moira 1938 births Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire Musicians from Kirkintilloch Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Scottish radio presenters Scottish women radio presenters Scottish sopranos Scottish television presenters Scottish women television presenters Butlins Redcoats People educated at Lenzie Academy People educated at Ayr Academy 20th-century Scottish women singers Scottish humanitarians