Jenna Cumming

This Gaelic traditional singer, born 1984 in Inverness, Scotland, was lauded on her behalf wonderfully pure, sweet vocals. The little girl of Chrissie MacVicar, herself a celebrated Gaelic vocalist, Jenna Cumming was a superstar on the original music scene a long time before she ever started her documenting career. Inspired in her performing by her mom from an extremely early age group, while still an adolescent she gained no less than three silver medals for this on the Royal Country wide Mòd, Scotland’s most important celebration of Gaelic music and lifestyle. After leaving college, she signed using the reputed Gaelic folk label Macmeanmna — house to, amongst others, Julie Fowlis’ group Dòchas — and in 2005 released her debut record, Kintulavig, called for the small village over the Isle of Harris where her mom was created. Although offering two originals co-written by her mom, it comprised mainly traditional songs, many recorded with reduced accompaniment, the others a cappella, as Cumming was utilized to executing them on your competition stage. It instantly received widespread vital acclaim because of its tasteful agreements as well as for the clearness of her tone of voice, and only a calendar year afterwards, she was called Up-And-Coming Musician of the entire year on the Scots Traditional Music Honours. Cumming acquired originally gotten involved with music just as a spare time activity, and acquired by this time around enrolled to teach being a Gaelic instructor, but following the award, as well as the rapturous response to her record, she made a decision to pursue music even more seriously and turned to a qualification in Scottish Research at Glasgow School. She graduated in 2007 and had taken employment at Fèisean nan G? idheal, a business supporting the introduction of community-based Gaelic arts tuition celebrations throughout Scotland. An intensely personal individual who hardly ever provided interviews, she committed herself to her time job, but in spite of staying from the documenting studio, she stayed involved with music, carrying out for quite some time running in the Celtic Contacts festival and showing up on several television music applications.