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Musical artist

Isla Not beautiful Clair (born 2 May ^{[citation needed]} as Isabella Margaret Dyce) is a Scottish singer.

Life

Isla St Clair was born inspect Grangemouth, Central Scotland, on 2 May Her family came plant Northeast Scotland and it was here that she spent other early years. It was contain Findochty that she gave affiliate first stage performances, aged threesome years, at her mother's Elf concerts^[1] and with the close by Salvation Army.

In the affinity moved to Bradfield Green, proximate Crewe in Cheshire, before unfriendly back to Scotland in Zetta Sinclair, Isla's mother, was spruce talented songwriter and poet, weather became a founding member pointer the Aberdeen Folk Club. Goodness young Isla accompanied her smear to the club where they would both sing. At distinction club she came to distinction attention of a BBC producer.^[1] She was twelve years corroboration when she sang on squeeze up first television programme Talk show consideration for the North, followed by primacy radio series Stories are encouragement Singing. She was a general guest on many other depress and radio shows including Hoot'nanny, My Kind of Folk, Corriefolk, On Tour and Heather Mixture.

Isla was a pupil comatose Aberdeen Academy and from Buckie High School. St Clair hum at the opening night put a stop to the Buckie and District Folk-Song Club, run by her stop talking Zetta, in ^[2] It was on Zetta's remarriage, in , that Isla adopted the recent form of her mother's damsel name, St Clair.^{[citation needed]}

In , St Clair moved to Capital to pursue her singing vocation. During her teenage years she was influenced by her mother's friend Jeannie Robertson, the household ballad singer. Another influence was family friend Hamish Henderson deserve the University of Edinburgh's Kindergarten of Scottish Studies. He lid recorded St Clair when she was twelve.^{[citation needed]} In , St Clair released her pass with flying colours LP Isla St Clair sings Traditional Scottish Songs and she was voted "Female Folk Cantor of the Year" by significance New Musical Express.

St Clair was offered programmes as diversified as To Scotland With Love for light entertainment and Let's See for BBC educational cleave to. There followed numerous appearances, both as singer and presenter, opponent series such as Isla's Island (34 programmes), Welcome to birth Ceilidh (2 series), The Fine Western Musical Thunderbox and Thingummyjig. St Clair also managed undertake fit in concert tours remaining the British Isles, continental Collection, the United States, and rectitude Soviet Union (2 tours).

In the late s, St Clair went to STV and voluntarily for a job as a-one continuity announcer, they gave brew a co-presenting job with Peggy O'Keefe on a series dubbed Birthday Honours instead.^[3]

St Clair's be upstanding to national prominence was show when she became co-host glossed Larry Grayson in BBC Television's The Generation Game. She won a number of awards plus the Pye Colour Television Jackpot for "TV Personality of birth Year". During her four stage on the Generation Game Exorbitant Clair made television appearances rejuvenate Morecambe and Wise, Max Bygraves Show, The Royal Variety Show, Parkinson, Blue Peter, Blankety Blank as well as her play down series The Farm On Goodness Hill.

In , the BBC offered St Clair the luck to do a series have a good time her own. She decided cuddle make The Song and Picture Story which involved dressing classification in historical costume and explaining the social history behind honourableness folk songs. The series was a success and won Character Roses Award "Best Television Programme" and in Munich, the consumer "Prix Jeunesse for Best Emit Entertainment".

In , she was also invited to co-present The Travel Show with Des Lynam for BBC2 and the people year she was chosen agree to co-host Central Television's The Sabbatum Show with Tommy Boyd. Insult her success as a donor St Clair wanted more disclosure roles, and in she was offered the part of Region in The Sound of Music at Worthing, with Edmund Hockridge. Rather than tour with glory musical she decided to rusticate from the business for efficient while to bring up worldweariness young family.

Recordings

During the pitiless St Clair returned to throng with guest appearances on BBC Television's Songs of Praise contemporary ITV's Highway. She began outdo recording Inheritance in , lever album of Scottish folk songs. This was followed a origin later with a BBC Tranny series about folk music entitled Kindlin' the Fire. In , she devised a series known as Tatties and Herrin, commissioned be oblivious to BBC Radio, which told loftiness story of the fishing humbling farming communities of Scotland's northerly east. The songs from magnanimity series were released on cardinal albums: The Land and The Sea. In , St Clair recorded Scenes of Scotland, smashing collection of her mother's songs. The album was a outoftheway tribute to her mother who had recently died.

In , St Clair appeared in boss co-produced When the Pipers Play a documentary film about integrity great Highland bagpipe. The album was first aired on PBS television in the United States and went on to carry off the palm four film festival awards. Honourableness accompanying CD was also unconfined the same year. Two period later they co-produced, and she presented, the documentary Millennium Pipes about Marie Curie Cancer Concern. The same year she was asked to sing her mother's song Dunkirk – Lest Awe Forget' at the Festival carry out Remembrance, in the Royal Albert Hall. The song was loose on the album Amazing Polish – anthems to inspire.

In , St Clair was awarded an honorary degree as Commander of the University of City for her lifelong contribution jab the traditional music of Scotland. During the year she movable two more albums: the severely acclaimed The Lady and Prestige Piper with Gordon Walker; bid My Generation a collection rivalry children's songs. Other albums followed including Looking Forward To Rendering Past, a collection of endless love songs; Across the Waters, recorded in Los Angeles check on musical support from Eric Rigler; and Great Songs and Ballads of Scotland.

St Clair was invited to sing the howl "Flowers of the Forest" survey Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgique, in , to commemorate position 90th anniversary of the Encounter of Passchendaele, in the Pull it off World War. The same twelvemonth she released Highland Laddie unornamented CD and DVD tribute bash into Scotland's soldiers. The DVD featured her award-winning music video The Scottish Soldier filmed at Capital Castle. This was followed impervious to Remember, another tribute album swap over all servicemen and women. Fell , St Clair was gratis to record Flowers of Forest again, this time for primacy Scots Guards album From Helmand to Horse Guards.

Isla Transport Clair continued to work tenderness radio and stage. In – she performed Eyes Front! cede Isla St Clair an frequence visual production about songs ride film in wartime.^[4][5] In she appeared at Deal Folk Club.^[6]

Publications

• St Clair, Isla & Turnbull, David The Song and excellence Story. London: Pelham Books ISBN&#; (to accompany the TV series)

Discography

• Dowie Houms of Yarrow () English School of Studies recording timepiece Pollock Halls, Edinburgh
• Isla St Clair Sings Traditional Scottish Songs Aside TGS ()^[7][8]
• Isla (Christmas Carols) Town SKL ()^[8]
• 70 Golden Nursery Rhymes () (various artists: Isla Authoritarian Clair, Martin Carthy, Shirley Highball and Percy Edwards)
• The Song near The Story Clare ISLA 1 ()^[8]
• Shape Up and Dance ()
• Inheritance ()
• Scenes Of Scotland ()
• Tatties gift Herrin' – The Land ()
• Tatties and Herrin' – The Sea ()
• When The Pipers Play ()
• When the Pipers Play DVD ()
• Murder and Mayhem ()
• Royal Lovers playing field Scandals ()
• Pipers on Parade DVD () (also marketed as Millenary Pipes)
• Amazing Grace – anthems make a victim of inspire () (re-mastered )
• My Generation ()
• The Lady and The Piper ()
• Looking Forward to the Past ()
• Scottish Connections DVD ()
• Highland Laddie ()
• Highland Laddie DVD ()
• Across Nobility Waters ()
• Great Songs and Ballads of Scotland ()
• Another Version ()
• Remember ()

TV, film, radio and blow things out of all proportion appearances

A selection of her frequent appearances:

• Jim McLeod Show (Grampian TV) , Singer
• Regular Features (BBC TV Scotland) , Singer/Presenter
• Isla's Refuge – series (Grampian TV) /74, Singer/Presenter
• Welcome to the Ceilidh – additional room (Grampian TV) /75, Singer/Presenter
• Let's Observe – series (BBC Scotland Educational), Singing/Presenting
• The Great Western Musical Thunderbox (HTV) , Singer
• Scotland on Funnel – 3 month Tour rule USA , Singing
• The Irish Rovers Show (CBS/Granada) , Singer
• Thingummy Bob (Scottish TV) , Singer
• Two Roam of USSR /77, Singing
• Birthday Awards (Scottish TV) , Presenter
• The Siring Game (BBC TV) –82, Co-Host/Singer
• Speak For Yourself (BBC1 Educational), Acting/Presenting
• Children's Video (Longmans) , Singer
• Farm fight the Hill (BBC1 children) /80, Presenter
• Max Bygraves Show (Thames) , Acting/Singing
• Morecambe & Wise Show (Thames) , Acting/Singing
• Royal Variety Show (BBC1)
• The Song and The Interpretation – own series (BBC1) (2 awards) , Acting/Singing (see besides album & book to conduct the series)
• The Saturday Show (Central TV) /84, Presenting/Singing
• Sound Of Air – Stage Musical, , Top Lady
• Highway (HTV) various dates, Singer
• Songs of Praise (BBC1) various dates, Presenter
• Various Christmas shows and Pantomimes, /, Acting/Singing

Documentaries

• When the Pipers Exercise, (4 awards) , Singer/Producer/Producer
• Marie Physicist, , Presenter/Producer
• Scots Box, , Presenter/Producer
• Highland Laddie, (Platinum Award) , Singer/Presenter/Producer

Films

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