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Kenneth McKellar
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Romantic Scotland Of Kenneith Mckellar
- I Want To Be Good
- The romantic Scotland of Kenneth McKellar in picture and song
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1927
- Active to
- 2010
classicalscottish tenortenor
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,999
- Total plays
- 39,785
Tags
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Kenneth McKellar (23 June 1927 – 9 April 2010) was a Scottish tenor Kenneth McKellar is a Scottish singer who was born in Paisley in 1927. He originally studied Forestry at Aberdeen University, after graduation working for the Scottish Forestry Commission. He later trained at the Royal College of Music as an opera singer. He did not enjoy his time with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and left them to pursue a career singing traditional Scottish songs and other works. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Paisley
- Place of death
- South Lake Tahoe
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1966
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Parlophone
- Voice type
- tenor
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- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1927-06-23
- date of death
- 2010-04-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- different from
- Kenneth McKellar
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