Julie Fowlis

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Julie Fowlis (born 20 June 1978) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who performs mainly in Scottish Gaelic.

Early life

Fowlis grew up on North Uist, a island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gaelic-speaking group. Her mother, a Gaelic-speaking islander from a family of fishermen and crofters, whose family roots on the small island of Heisgeir, and her father hails from Pitlochry, mainland Scotland. Her parents owned a hotel on North Uist for many years. When her father took a new job, she and her parents migrated to Ross-shire on the mainland when she was 15 years old. The family lived in Strathpeffer and Fowlis, where she completed her secondary education at Dingwall Academy. She then studied the oboe and the English horn at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and obtained a B.A. In 2000, there was a change in Applied Music. Fowlis completed university at Sabhal M.R. Ostaig on the Isle of Skye to learn her Gaelic and classical Scottish music. Following that, she returned to Ross-shire and worked with Fréis Rois in Dingwall as a music development officer from 2001 to 2004.

Personal life

Fowlis lives in Dingwall, Scotland, with her partner Éamon Doorley, a regular member of her group, as well as the Irish traditional group Dan. Aoibhe (b.) and the couple married in May 2007 and have two children Aoibhe (b. ). 2010) and Niamh (b. ): The pop star and the Niamh (b.). (2012) - The third installment of the Ida (Japan) series.

In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Fowlis voted for independence.

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Career

Fowlis had been involved in singing, piping, and dancing since she was a child. Jenna Reid, a Shetland fiddle player, began her professional career as a member of the Scottish sextet Dchas, which also included Shetland fiddle player Jenna Reid. Four members of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and Fowlis, a student at the University of Strathclyde, were a member of the group. The band, which has been described as "a young and vibrant all-female band playing traditional music from Scotland and Ireland," on its first album in 2002. At the inaugural Scot Trad Music Awards in 2003, the group was nominated for the Best Up-and Coming Artist/Band award and was deemed in 2004. Fowlis herself was nominated for the Gaelic Singer of the Year award the same year.

Fowlis started to strike out on her own while assisting Dchas and releasing the band's second album An Darna Umhail in 2005. Mar a Tha Mo Chridhe (As My Heart Is) is her first solo album released in 2005. Iain MacDonald and Fowlis produced the album, which immediately gained her international fame. On seven of the tracks, Fowlis' future husband Éamonn Doorley played bouzouki. Kris Drever, Ross Martin of the "Gaelic super group" Dàimh, John Doyle, Iain MacDonald, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh of Dan, and many other well-known Irish and Scottish music artists were also accompanied by her. In 2012, the album was remastered and re-released.

In March 2007, she was released her second solo album Cuilidh, becoming a top-seller in the Traditional and World Music charts. Her album is a collection of songs from her native North Uist roots. Doorley performed bouzouki on almost all of the tracks and co-produced the album with Fowlis. She is also joined by John Doyle, Ross Martin, John McCusker, Iain MacDonald, Kathleen MacInnes, and several others.

Fowlis received the Horizon Prize at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, received Folk Singer of the Year at the 2008 awards, and was nominated for the Folk Singer of the Year at the 2007 awards. On BBC Two on May 25, she appeared on Later With Jools Holland, and on the program, she performed Hónaid Mhir. Björk, Ricky Gervais, and Radiohead's Phil Selway were all enthusiastic supporters of Fowlis.

Julie Anhlaoibh, Ross Martin, and her husband Éamonn Doorley all recorded an album in 2008. Dual was released in October 2008. Fowlis has toured extensively around Scotland, Ireland, central Europe, and America, releasing both her solo albums and her solo albums while on tour. Fowlis produced a Scottish Gaelic version of "Blackbird" for Mojo Magazine to commemorate the Beatles' "The White Album"'s anniversary. In October 2008, Fowlis' own website had the song as a download single.

Fowlis revealed on April 24th, 2009, that she will debut her third studio album in May and that she will preview tracks from the project's May 2009 tour of England. Uam (Scottish Gaelic for 'From Me') was released by the artist on August 10, 2009. The album was released on October 26th.

She appeared in the hour-long Heisgeir at Beauly's Phipps Hall in September 2011. As part of the six "Blas 2011" concert series, the piece, half-documentary, and half-arthouse reflection commemorated the past, landscape, and legend of the now-uninhabited Heisgeir.

Fowlis appeared in the off-screen musical reflections of lead character Merida in 2012 and contributed to the Pixar film Brave's "Touch the Sky" and "Into the Open Air." She graduated from the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in 2011 with a MA in material culture and the environment. Fowlis was dubbed "UHI Alumnus of the year" in 2013.

Gach Sgeul (Every Story), Fowlis' fourth studio album, was released on February 24, 2014. Alterum, her fifth film, came out on October 27th.

Both Fowlis' albums, including Dual, have been released on Fowlis' label, which is run by Fowlis and her partner Éamon Doorley as an instrument for their music. "Machair" is a Gaelic word that refers to abundant and fertile low-lying land. Almost half of all Scottish machair occurs in the Outer Hebrides, and it is one of Europe's rarest habitat species. It is a fragile environment that is under threat, a little like the music that is produced on this label." Cadiz Music is the brand of Cadiz Music.

Fowlis has a long line in television to complement her numerous musical accomplishments. Bliadhna Julie / Julie's Year was a guest on BBC Radio Scotland's flagship classical music show Travelling Folk and the world music show Global Gathering, and BBC Two broadcast a one-hour documentary on her travels and careers in the music industry in 2007. Fowlis and Folk, BBC Radio Scotland's first broadcast series, aired in 2008-09. She co-presents the annual Radio 2 Folk Awards with Mark Radcliffe and has deputized for Radcliffe on his weekly BBC Radio 2 Folk Show. Fowlis, her family, and her band appeared on PBS in 2012 as part of an episode of the program Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders.

Fowlis and her frequent musical collaborator Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh co-produced a television series Port dedicated to traditional Scottish and Irish music in 2015. Fowlis and Nic Amhlaoibh bring local folk musicians and the local traditional music scene to a new audience in each episode. Fowlis, a Scottish Gaelic and Nic Amhlaobh in Ireland, has narrated the program, which also has English-language subtitles. Both BBC Alba and TG4 are broadcasting it. In 2016, the first season of seven episodes began, with a second season of seven episodes.

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