KT Tunstall
Kate Victoria " KT " Tunstall [ keɪtɪ tʌnstɔ ː l] ( born June 23, 1975 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and composer and is one of the genre of singer- songwriters.
Life
A native of St. Andrews singer is Chinese -Irish descent, grew up with adoptive parents and studied at the Kent School in Connecticut, and at the Royal Holloway University of London. When she met her birth mother, she learned from her that her father was a musician - after she had already gone down this path themselves. At the beginning of her musical career, she starred in several independent bands, while specializing in the song writing. She also wrote music for children's TV shows and appeared in this also.
Your alias " KT " refers to the name of Katie. As a student at the University of London, she played acoustic guitar in a student bar under that name.
Her breakthrough came with a solo presentation of the song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree at the British entertainment show Later with Jools Holland, where they had only 24 hours to prepare for this race after the scheduled appearance by the rapper Nas could not take place because his father was ill.
The debut album Eye to the Telescope was released a short time later and then climbed into the UK charts at number 3 (after the first publication at No. 73). It was nominated in July 2005 for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005.
In Germany, KT Tunstall was known by her concert in the year by the German radio station SWR3 New Pop Festival held outside of the charts for the first time in 2005.
KT Tunstall was married from 2008 to 2013 with drummer Luke Bullen, the member of Joe Strummer's band The Mescaleros and was also played for John Squire.
The BRIT Awards 2006, she was able to secure the title of the British Female Solo Artist ( Best British female solo artist ).
A number of songs with acoustic instruments appeared in October 2006 under the title KT Tunstall 's Acoustic Extravaganza. Originally the songs were to be sold exclusively through their website. You should have recorded the album in just 36 hours.
In September 2007, her second studio album Drastic Fantastic appeared. First single from the album was the song Hold On.
Tunstall's third studio album Tiger Suit was released in Germany on October 22, 2010. The first European single release ( Still A) Weirdo has been released for download on August 30. In America, instead already on August 10, Fade Like a Shadow was released as a download single.
Tunstall's fourth studio album, Invisible Empire / / Crescent Moon was released in June 2013.
KT Tunstall plays preferably Acoustic Guitars by Gibson, here again mainly the so-called Dove models.
Discography
Studio albums
EPs
Other albums:
- 2004: False Alarm
- 2006: Live Sessions
- 2010: Energy Live Session: Live from Switzerland
- 2011: Live in London March 2011
- 2011: The Scarlet Tulip EP
- 2013: Live Islington Assembly Hall