Who is isla grant

She and her family had decided this would be her final tour because "things are getting so busy all over the world now, The diary's getting filled up so quickly and I'm finding it difficult to book tours in". But there are people wanting her to go to India and China, "so I don't know whether I'll ever be able to slow down". The prolific singer-songwriter is touring with a new album, From The Heart, and will perform at Invercargill's Civic Theatre on August Even though she's entertaining the possibility of an end to touring, that wouldn't mean an end to more Isla Grant albums.

I don't think I'm clever, I just think I've been given a great gift. I ask whether she has a suitcase full of songs she's never released. I would say probably anything from upwards. I don't know really how many. I keep putting them down on paper and getting music down for them and just filing them away. One day when I'm no longer here my family will be finding all these words.

So her own record label IGE could be releasing posthumous albums for decades to come? She laughs at the thought of it. Despite the sheer volume of unreleased songs she has squirrelled away, she says she's not a person who slavishly records her achievements for posterity. I have, I suppose, 12 triple-platinum discs now - discs from Australia, discs from New Zealand.

But once an album's out and it's been taken out on the road I focus then on the next project. I'm go ahead the whole time, looking to the future the whole time. That was the first time I went over — I was supposed to go for seven concerts and I went for seventeen.

She loved farm life and the simple things like helping her father in the milking parlour. Hers was a musical family — her mother was a wonderful singer and active in amateur drama while her father was a pipe major and her grandfather and two uncles were keen fiddle players. It was inevitable that a young Isla would follow suit. Then when I was eleven he got married and he gave me the guitar and I taught myself how to play. Faith in the Lord and the love and support of her husband enabled her to return to the stage after a five year absence, when it was initially feared that she would never sing again.

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