Biography

Lorna Cormack is from Portree. Her father, Robert, was from Lewis and her mother, Clarice, was from the Lochalsh area. She is the only daughter in the family and has four brothers – Arthur, Robert, Hector, and John.

Lorna attended Portree Primary and High School and after leaving school she worked for the Clydesdale Bank in the town. She worked there until 2007 when she began working for the Highland Council in Portree.

She started singing at mods while at school, and has done very well since in adult competitions. She won the Silver Pendant at the National Mòd in Inverness in 1984, and since then she has been very successful in the Sarah Weir and Òrain Chataibh agus an Eilein Sgitheanaich competitions.

She was in the Portree Gaelic Choir for about five years and she spends a lot of time involved in the Portree Pantomime Group. She was a producer of a play they put on stage in 2010, a play in which twenty-six people, children and adults, took part.

Her daughter Lauren also sings and plays guitar and piano. Lauren and Lorna have sung together and hope in the near future that they will sing in duet competitions.