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1 appearance
Scottish singer who was a child soloist, broadcast under the name Mary Winters, and studied piano and singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music.
On the island
Eight records
GUEST: Took the Diana Durban song and … Made it. Mine.
The keepsakes
No book or luxury recorded for this episode.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:17Do you come from a musical family?
Yes, we're all musical. … my mother and father are good singers. Didn't do it professionally of course, but uh we were all … would all sing just about the same time as we could talk.
Presenter asks
1:31Had you decided then as a schoolgirl that you wanted music to be your career?
Not really. … it became an all consuming … hobby really and I've decided that I wanted to do that more than anything else.
Presenter asks
1:45What happened when you left school?
Well, I went to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and uh studied there.
Presenter asks
1:58With a view to what? To teaching or performing?
Yes, with a view to teaching.
Presenter asks
2:03So, when you were a student, did you do any professional work at all?
Well, encouraged to do this, of course, because it's his great experience … the only way to gain experience is to get out there in front of a live audience. … I did quite a lot of uh messiahs and … operas and things.
Presenter asks
2:43What happened when you left the Glasgow Academy?
Well, I I then embarked on a teaching career. In Ayrshire.
“Yes, we're all musical. Uh my mother and father are good singers.”
“I in fact I was underage when I did my first broadcast and they gave me another name, Mary Winters.”
“it became an all consuming … hobby really and I've decided that I wanted to do that more than anything else.”
“it's quite fantastic. Sometimes you wish you weren't really Scots because it's quite overpowering, you know, to um land at some airport and uh find the place all festooned with tartan and a pipe band playing”
“That was the … climax really to be asked to sing for Her Majesty. It was a thrilling evening.”