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Iona Fyfe
Scottish folk singer
Since 1998
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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.
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Discography
Albums
- 2018 Away From My Window
- 2022 Iona Fyfe
EPs
- 2015 The First Sangs
- 2016 East
- 2019 Dark Turn of Mind
- 2020 Ballads Vol. I
Singles
- 2020 Bonnie Lass of Fyvie