Often the idea of living in the “middle of nowhere” seems like a peaceful experience, but not if you are the Lennox family. Smiling fondly, Annie Lennox – the one from Aberdeenshire, not Aberdeen – admitted: “We were a very noisy house growing up. “It was probably just as well we had no neighbours.
“Growing up we were all very close and the music gave us something to do.” One of three, Annie, 27, was brought up with her two siblings Cit and Mac by her parents on Knock Hill between Portsoy and Keith. In their mum Jill Andrew’s opinion, their isolated location led to the family’s musical talents and later on, proved to be the making of a slightly unusual musical career.
Jill said: “It’s up the hill in the middle of nowhere and I wonder if that’s instrumental in having such a lot of music around us because there was nothing else. “No other distractions. It was a case of ‘Right kids, let’s sing a song’.
” The family acapella trio Tripple The singing stuck so much that Annie, Cit, and mum Jill now travel and perform together as an Since forming, they have travelled around the UK and Europe to perform at festivals, concerts and competitions. When asked how they describe their trio and style, Annie said: “I say it’s a family band, it’s acapella singing. “We prioritise quite interesting harmonies, it’s not all predictable.
“We have a lot of fun doing those kinds of arrangements which are predominantly traditional Scottish, although we al.