...de la Guardian:
I've only just found out I'm on the record. I'm so chuffed. They've mis-spelt my song, but it's in Welsh, so you can understand. It's about Welsh people's fears about losing their language. It was a real fear in the 1970s.
I've sung since I was a child. My mam was a singer, so I learned from her. I was the smallest girl in school, but my teachers made me join a school talent contest and I won. I got into the Welsh language scene when I was 14, and by the mid-60s I was in girl groups, doing three-part harmony versions of Blowin' in the Wind. Then I started gigging. These days people can put things on the web and they're famous in five minutes - I had to slog through hundreds of concerts during my A-levels for which I was paid a few guineas. Then I joined Bara Menyn, the Welsh rock band, where most of the recordings that are being loved again come from.
I've only just found out I'm on the record. I'm so chuffed. They've mis-spelt my song, but it's in Welsh, so you can understand. It's about Welsh people's fears about losing their language. It was a real fear in the 1970s.
I've sung since I was a child. My mam was a singer, so I learned from her. I was the smallest girl in school, but my teachers made me join a school talent contest and I won. I got into the Welsh language scene when I was 14, and by the mid-60s I was in girl groups, doing three-part harmony versions of Blowin' in the Wind. Then I started gigging. These days people can put things on the web and they're famous in five minutes - I had to slog through hundreds of concerts during my A-levels for which I was paid a few guineas. Then I joined Bara Menyn, the Welsh rock band, where most of the recordings that are being loved again come from.
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