Dumfriesshire opera singer Nicky Spence has been awarded an OBE in the King’s first Birthday Honours list for services to music.
The Thornhill tenor and former Wallace Hall Academy pupil, who started his serious singing life with the Dalgarno Singers as an early teen, has gone on to become a much-loved classical singing sensation with a career that has taken him around the world.
He will attend an investiture ceremony to receive his Officer of the Order of the British Empire award in due course and said: “To be recognised in this way for doing a job I adore is the cherry on an already pretty juicy cake.
