Arthur Cormack is a Scots Gaelic singer and musician from Portree

Portree

Portree is the largest town on Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is the location for the only secondary school on the Island, Portree High school. Public transport services are limited to buses....

, Isle of Skye.

Music

Cormack started competing in Gaelic singing competitions when he was 8 and competing at Mods when he was 11.http://www.heritagenorth.org.uk/HI-Arts/Features/2003/oct03_feature-arthur-cormack.htm He won the coveted Gold Medal at the Motherwell

Motherwell

Motherwell is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. The name "Moderwelt" appears on a map of Lanarkshire made by Timothy Pont some time between 1583 and 1611 and printed in the Netherlands in around 1652, although the settlement was probably little more...

 Mod

Mod

- General :* Honour Moderations, a first set of examinations at Oxford University* Maximum operating depth, in scuba diving, the depth at which a gas mix exceeds safe limits* Ministry of Defence, the part of a government responsible for matters of military defence...

 in 1983 at the age of 18, the youngest individual ever to do so.http://www.footstompin.com/products/cds/nuair_bha_mi_og

He is part of the Gaelic supergroup Cliar and he also runs his own Macmeanmna label and continues to guest star on the albums of Blair Douglas.

Gaelic

Cormack is a strong advocate for the Scots Gaelic language and since 2008 has been chairman of Bord na Gaidhlig

Bòrd na Gàidhlig

Bòrd na Gàidhlig is a quango appointed by the Scottish Government with responsibility for Scottish Gaelic...

as well as Chief Executive of Feisean nan Gaidheal for many years. He has been a proactive chairman, often taking to internet forums to counteract anti-Gaelic sentiment.