Scottish Music

Ranjith Daluwatta

During the 1960s and Seventies, for countless Radio listeners and TV viewers, Calum Kennedy was the Gaelic singer, known as “the golden voice of the Highlands”.  His was a hard-earned popularity, as he pursued a gruelling schedule of road shows, recordings and regular television appearances, as well as running two theatres. An expansive figure often clad in full kilt and plaid, his mellifluous tenor voice took him from the Lewis croft on which he grew up to singing before the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. 

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