Isla St Clair

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Isabella Margaret Dyce, a Scottish singer, actress, and former game show co-host, Isla St Clair (born 2 May 1952 as Isabella Margaret Dyce) is a Scottish singer, actress, and former game show co-host.

Life

Isla St Clair was born in 1952 in Grangemouth, central Scotland, and her mother, Zetta Sinclair, was born. Her family came from northeast Scotland, and it was here that she spent her early years. She appeared in Findochty for her first stage appearances, aged three years, at her grandmother's Brownie concerts and with the local Salvation Army.

In 1955, the family lived in Bradfield Green, Cheshire, before heading back to Scotland in 1960. Zetta Sinclair, Isla's mother, was a gifted songwriter and poet who served as a founding member of the Aberdeen Folk Club. The teen Isla accompanied her mother to the club, where they would all sing. At the club, she attracted the attention of a BBC journalist. She was twelve years old when she appeared on her first television show Talk of the North and then the radio show Stories are for Singing. Hoot'nanny, My Kind of Folk, Corriefolk, On Tour, and Heather Mixture were among other television and radio shows that featured her.

Isla was a pupil at Aberdeen Academy and attended Buckie High School from 1967 to 1967. Isla adopted the original form of her mother's maiden name, St Clair, during Zetta's remarriage in 1968.

St Clair's career began in 1969 when she moved to Edinburgh to pursue her singing career. Jeannie Robertson, her mother's companion, influenced her in her teenage years. Hamish Henderson, a family friend, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies, was also influential. When she was twelve, he first recorded St Clair. "Female Folk Singer of the Year" was awarded by the New Musical Express in 1971. St Clair's first LP, Isla St Clair, performed Traditional Scottish Songs.

St Clair was offered programs such as To Scotland With Love for light entertainment and Let's See for BBC educational television. Several appearances followed, including as a musician and host on programmes including Isla's Island (34 programs), Welcome to the Ceilidh (2 series), The Great Western Musical Thunderbox and Thingummyjig were among the many others. In addition, St Clair has been able to participate in concert tours of the British Isles, Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union (two tours).

St Clair's parents, who applied for a job as a continuity announcer, were given a co-presenting role on a show called Birthday Honours in the late 1970s.

St Clair's ascension to national prominence came in 1978 when she co-host with Larry Grayson in BBC Television's The Generation Game. She has received numerous awards, including the Pye Colour Television Award for "TV Personality of the Year." During her four years on Generation Game St Clair, Max Bygraves Show, The Royal Variety Show, Parkinson, Blue Peter, Blankety Blank, and her own series The Farm On The Hill, she starred on television.

The BBC gave St Clair the opportunity to do a sequence of her own in 1981. She chose The Song and The Story, which required dressing up in historical costume and describing the folk songs's social history. The series was a huge success and received The Roses Award "Best Television Show" in Munich, as well as the highly coveted "Prix Jeunesse for Best Light Entertainment."

She was also asked to co-present The Travel Show with Des Lynam for BBC2, and then the following year, she was chosen to co-host Central Television's The Saturday Show with Tommy Boyd. Despite her success as a host, St Clair was keen to perform more, and Edmund Hockridge was given the opportunity to perform in The Sound of Music in Worthing, 1984. Rather than performing with the musical, she decided to step away from the industry for a while to care for her young children.

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