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Mairi Campbell (born 1965) is a Scottish folk singer and musician. Campbell’s songs and music have a rooted and powerful quality that range from the everyday to the universal, both in sound and subject matter. Campbell has been much praised for her singing voice and musical skills. She has won multiple awards including Scots Singer of the Year, Female Musician of the Year, Neil Gow Composition of the Year, and Tutor of the Year. In 2015 Campbell created her first solo theatre show Pulse, an autobiographical account of a musician seeking pulse. Tracks from her 2015 album Pulse, a collaboration with the producer David Gray, feature in the show. Campbell is one half of the duo The Cast, whose version of the Robert Burns poem Auld Lang Syne featured in the blockbuster movie Sex and the City. Campbell is also a member of the ceilidh band The Occasionals, and is a guest musician with the baroque ensemble Concerto Caledonia. == Early life and music == Campbell was born and raised in Morningside, Edinburgh. She was brought up alongside her three-sisters by their mother, the artist Marjorie Campbell and their father Archie, an academic at Napier University. Her mother and father ensured that all four sisters had a strong grounding in music. The sisters formed their own string quartet when Campbell was 11. Campbell studied the viola with Michael Beeston at The City of Edinburgh Music School from age 16. She went on to study with Csaba Erelyi at Guildhall School of Music in London where she was penalised for playing her own composition in her final exam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mairi Campbell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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