Isla grant singer biography
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Isla Grant was born in Wigtownshire, Scotland but when she was a few months old her family moved away and eventually settled in the Scottish Borders. Her parents were dairy people and Isla spent many happy years with her parents and two older brothers on the farm.
Isla grant singer biography
She loved the farm life and would help her father in the milking parlour at milking time and for a while she showed hereford bulls at the cattle shows. Her love of music started at an early age when she would listen to records her mother had.
These were mainly Scottish and Irish recordings, her brothers were at that time listening to jazz and pop and some skiffle.
When she was about eight she used to pluck the strings on her oldest brothers guitar and eventually he gave her the guitar so I suppose you could say that he is responsible for Isla starting to play music although music was right through her family.
Her father’s side of the family were highland bagpipe players and her mother’s side were violin players and ther