Christine Primrose (; born 17 February 1950) is a

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

singer and music teacher. She was born in Carloway, Lewis, 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 Washington, D.C., 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

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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. * MBE 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

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* {{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 Members_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire