[2][3] In interviews Primrose has stated that she has been singing since she was a small child, which is very typical in her family.
She won a gold medal in sean-nós at the Royal National Mòd in 1974 and an award at the 1978 Pan Celtic Festival,[4] and, as was not common at the time, she took a degree in traditional Gaelic music, and she has been performing all around the world, especially in North America, Australia, New Zealand and in Europe.
For example, she was at the Smithsonian Folklife Music Festival in Washington, D.C., with Alison Kinnaird.
[citation needed] According to Cencrastus magazine, her first album Àite Mo Ghaoil became "a classic for its generation".
[9] She has complained that "bias... resulted in some of Scotland's finest musicians being treated as little more than 'noble savages'".