Biography

Archie Campbell was born in Glasgow in 1968 but grew up in the village of Taynuilt near Oban.

His primary school had a wonderful teacher named Morag Robb who led the primary school choir and also had some of the students work with her on solo singing. The school choir won many competitions over the years at both the local Oban Mòd and the National Mòd. Many of the Taynuilt solo singers, including Archie, won multiple solo competitions, including the local silver medals for solo singing. This led to Archie singing in the Royal National Mòd at Perth in 1980 and winning the solo competition for boys his age.

The primary school choir also won at the National Mòd that year. Archie's voice broke when he moved to the high school in Oban, and he never again worked with Mrs Robb, despite her being the biggest influence on his Gaelic signing career. Archie continued to sing in pantomimes and musical theatre through high school and university but did not have much opportunity to sing in Gaelic after his work career took him abroad. He still loves to sing but unfortunately doesn't sing much in Gaelic anymore.