A TALENTED young singer could have what it takes to pen Scotland's next greatest hit...after all she has been getting tips from a music legend.

Katee Kross has received a lesson or two from the master behind the Scottish anthem Caledonia, Dougie MacLean.

The 20-year-old, from Bishopbriggs, said: "I have met Dougie a few times and I have gigged with him. He's such a great guy and he is so down to earth."

She added: "He's just a normal person, he doesn’t have any kind of persona about him and he wants to teach you.

"Some people keep their secrets to themselves but Dougie will explain things to you, and tell you how he wrote Caledonia and how he uses those chords, so you really get to learn so much off him."

The next time Katee will play alongside Scottish favourite Dougie is on July 21 at Hebcelt Festival in Stornoway.

But before then, she will continue to work on her sound, and although she is unsigned, Katee is already making waves within the music world.

She even had a once in a lifetime spot supporting Seasick Steve at Wembley last October, which came about after the singer's wife spotted Katee singing his track Purple Shadows on YouTube.

She said: "Performing at the Seasick Steve show was literally like something out of a movie. I put a cover of one of his songs on YouTube. I never though anything of it when I uploaded it in the June. Then in October we got a message from Seasick Steve management asking me to do the Wembley show."

She added: "At first we thought it was joke or a wind up. For them to find it on YouTube when we didn’t even push for it, I didn’t think anything like that would happen.

"I felt like I was in a dream the whole time. It never hit me until I got off stage that I had done it.

"I know I am so lucky to have that opportunity and that platform to perform on because a lot of my friends who are musicians were very jealous at the time. Obviously they were very supportive as well. I am really honoured to have had that opportunity."

It is clear from Katee's family life that she was born to be on the stage. The former Turnbull High School pupil even works in the family business which is a music school in Bishopbriggs.

Her dad Peter O'Neil started Bishopbriggs School of Music from his garden shed.

And growing up Katee, her mum Lee and siblings Christine, 25, and Ian, 37, were always surrounded by music.

Katee, whose stage name is Kross, said: "My mum and dad have always been able to sing or play an instrument. My dad started teaching the guitar in our garden shed.

"It has always been part of family life, and if there has been any parties it has always been that someone has brought a different instrument with them."

She added: "I was about 13 when I started singing but I was playing a guitar from the age of five.

"I was a big Glee fan back then and I loved the Don’t Stop Believing song.

"There is a really horrendous cover of mine on YouTube and my dad won’t let me take it down to show where I have come from. It is really quite bad and it makes me cringe all the time."

Everyone in the music business has to start somewhere, and Katee realises that success is possible thanks to the likes of singer Amy MacDonald who grew up in the same area as her.

She said: "I think you would be silly not to look up to Amy MacDonald since we have both came from the same area.

"She had such an amazing career. Even to have something similar like that would be amazing.

"You see her sometimes driving round Bishopbriggs in her Ferrari, living the dream."

Katee, however, knows that she is in a way living the dream by being able to work in music full time.

She said: "I am really lucky because my friends are having to work proper jobs to fund their music career.

"If a record deal or a publishing deal comes up then of course I would take it.

"As long as I can play the guitar, make money and live, I would be happy.

"If along the way I get a fanbase that would be great as well."

Katee is also supporting Sandi Thom at Oran Mor in Glasgow on October 7.

Hebcelt festival With Dougie MacLean July 21

Oran Mor Glasgow, supporting Sandi Thom, October 7