Real name: Malcolm Martin Kennedy

Effective period / Period of releases: 1959 - 1976

(b. 2 June 1928, d.15 April 2006)

Born Malcolm Martin Kennedy on the Isle of Lewis, Calum Kennedy was a Scottish singer who won a gold medal at the Mod (Scotland), singing in Scottish Gaelic.
His first major success outside Scotland was his winning the World Ballad Championship in Moscow in 1957.

He had his own television programme, 'Calum's Ceilidh' and was voted "Grampian TV Personality of the Year".
He was married to another Mod gold medalist, Anne Gillies, who died in 1974.