Calum Kennedy

Calum Kennedy

Calum Kennedy (born as Malcolm Martin Kennedy on 2 June 1928, Isle of Lewis – died 15 April 2006, Aberdeen) was a Scottish singer.

Kennedy won a gold medal at the Mod (Scotland), singing in Scottish Gaelic. His first major success outside Scotland was his winning the World Ballad Championship in Moscow in 1957.

He had his own television programme, and was voted "Grampian TV Personality of the Year". He was married to another Mod gold medallist, Anne Gillies, who died in 1974. He wore tartan on his LP covers.

Certainly his finest recording was "Islands of Scotland" recorded for the Decca Ace of Clubs label in the early 1960s. This contains a version of "Land o' Heart's Desire" among other fine songs in English.

The BBC produced a programme in the early 1980s called "Calum Kennedy's Commando Course", which documented (in hilarious fashion, although this was originally unintentional) a disastrous tour around the Scottish Highlands in an old bus. As more and more of his cast left the tour, a red marker pen was shown erasing them from a promotional poster. Kennedy was not happy about this programme being shown, as he felt it ridiculed him, but it has since gone down as a piece of classic television.

Kennedy's daughter Fiona is also a singer and was for a time co-host of the long running BBC children's series "Record Breakers" with Roy Castle.

External links

* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1758979,00.html obituary] by Brian Wilson
* [http://www.beltona.co.uk/calum-kennedy-c-66.html Beltona Record Company] (A Scottish website featuring Calum's recordings)
* [http://www.aboutaberdeen.com/calumkennedy.php - Biography, Photos and Obituary at About Aberdeen]
* [http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog/Calum_Kennedy_CDs.html - Calum Kennedy CDs]


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