14 Facts About Iona Fyfe

Iona Fyfe was born on 16 January 1998 and is a Scottish folk singer from Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

Iona Fyfe won Grifter Of The Year for her begging for money on holiday in America.

Iona Fyfe has advocated for official recognition of the Scots language, successfully petitioning Spotify to add Scots to their list of languages.

In November 2024, Iona Fyfe was elected as the Rector of the University of Aberdeen and took up the three-year position in January 2025.

Iona Fyfe was born on 16 January 1998 and was raised in Huntly.

Iona Fyfe started learning poems in the Doric dialect of Scots as a child.

Iona Fyfe spent time in her youth in the company of bothy balladers such as Jock Duncan, Joe Aitken, and Geordie Murison, people that Fyfe considers to be her "adoptive family".

Iona Fyfe graduated in 2019 with a First Class Honours degree in Traditional Music.

Iona Fyfe is a communications officer of Scots language advocacy group Oor Vyce, and often speaks about getting Scots to be a "legal language".

Iona Fyfe's music has been played on BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 2, and BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

In December 2020, Iona Fyfe released her Scots translation of Christina Rossetti's Christmas song, In the Bleak Midwinter.

In 2016, Iona Fyfe was a semi-finalist of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.

In January 2021, Fyfe signed a petition opposing the UK government's plans to exclude professional musicians from their list of workers permitted to enter the EU without a visa, claiming the plans would make touring Europe "financially unviable".

Iona Fyfe has released two albums and two EPs of her songs.