Pat Kane

Journalist, Musical Artist

1964 –

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Who is Pat Kane?

Patrick Mark "Pat" Kane is a Scottish musician, and half of the pop duo Hue and Cry with his younger brother Greg.

Kane is a writer on political and cultural topics, and was an activist for Scottish self-government in the 1980s and 1990s. He helped found the organization Artists For An Independent Scotland. In 1990 he was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow for three years. He had graduated from the school in 1985, earning an MA in English.

During the 1990s he began working as an arts journalist, presenting several live discussion shows for Channel 4 and BBC2, and came third with BBC Radio Scotland series, Kane Over America for a Sony Award, in a category won by Allan Little. In 1999, Kane was one of the founding editors of the Sunday Herald newspaper. He occasionally writes for The Guardian.

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Born
Mar 10, 1964
Glasgow
Spouses
Nationality
  • Scotland
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Education
  • University of Glasgow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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