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Iona Fyfe
Iona Fyfe (born 16 January 1998) is a Scottish folk singer from Huntly, Aberdeenshire. In 2016, she was a semi-finalist for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and, in 2017 and 2021, was a finalist for the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician award.
In 2018, she won "Scots Singer of the Year" at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. In 2019, she won "Young Scots Speaker o the Year" at the inaugural Scots Language Awards, winning "Scots Performer o the Year" in the 2020 Awards, and "Scots Speaker o the Year" in the 2021 Awards.
She has advocated for official recognition of the Scots language, successfully petitioning Spotify to add Scots to their list of languages.
Fyfe is a National Director of the Traditional Music and Song Association and serves as a committee member of the Musicians' Union Scotland.
In November 2024, Fyfe was elected as the Rector of the University of Aberdeen and took up the three-year position in January 2025.
Fyfe was born on 16 January 1998 and was raised in Huntly. She started learning poems in the Doric dialect of Scots as a child. She spent time in her youth in the company of bothy balladers such as Jock Duncan, Joe Aitken, and Geordie Murison, people that Fyfe considers to be her "adoptive family". After singing folk songs and bothy ballads, Fyfe auditioned to join the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at the age of 16, being accepted. She graduated in 2019 with a First Class Honours degree in Traditional Music.
Fyfe is a communications officer of Scots language advocacy group Oor Vyce, and often speaks about getting Scots to be a "legal language". Her work in promoting the Scots language was recognised with awards from the Scots Language Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Fyfe sings in English and Doric Scots, and translates English songs into Doric. She is a member of the Iona Fyfe Trio. Her music has been played on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 2, and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. Her choice of country and western was inspired by Jane Turriff, who came from the north east of Scotland and recorded an album of country and western covers.
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Iona Fyfe
Iona Fyfe (born 16 January 1998) is a Scottish folk singer from Huntly, Aberdeenshire. In 2016, she was a semi-finalist for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and, in 2017 and 2021, was a finalist for the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician award.
In 2018, she won "Scots Singer of the Year" at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. In 2019, she won "Young Scots Speaker o the Year" at the inaugural Scots Language Awards, winning "Scots Performer o the Year" in the 2020 Awards, and "Scots Speaker o the Year" in the 2021 Awards.
She has advocated for official recognition of the Scots language, successfully petitioning Spotify to add Scots to their list of languages.
Fyfe is a National Director of the Traditional Music and Song Association and serves as a committee member of the Musicians' Union Scotland.
In November 2024, Fyfe was elected as the Rector of the University of Aberdeen and took up the three-year position in January 2025.
Fyfe was born on 16 January 1998 and was raised in Huntly. She started learning poems in the Doric dialect of Scots as a child. She spent time in her youth in the company of bothy balladers such as Jock Duncan, Joe Aitken, and Geordie Murison, people that Fyfe considers to be her "adoptive family". After singing folk songs and bothy ballads, Fyfe auditioned to join the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at the age of 16, being accepted. She graduated in 2019 with a First Class Honours degree in Traditional Music.
Fyfe is a communications officer of Scots language advocacy group Oor Vyce, and often speaks about getting Scots to be a "legal language". Her work in promoting the Scots language was recognised with awards from the Scots Language Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Fyfe sings in English and Doric Scots, and translates English songs into Doric. She is a member of the Iona Fyfe Trio. Her music has been played on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 2, and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. Her choice of country and western was inspired by Jane Turriff, who came from the north east of Scotland and recorded an album of country and western covers.
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