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KT Tunstall

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KT Tunstall enchants audiences and engages with every song, and that's why she continues to resonate not only among fans but throughout pop culture at large. Scotland born and now Los Angeles based, KT Tunstall emerged with her 2004 classic debut Eye to the Telescope, spawning such international hits as "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" and "Suddenly I See," which won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song in 2006. That same year she won her first Brit Award for Best British Female Artist and earned Grammy and Mercury Prize nominations in 2007. KT has released five studio albums internationally, to date: Eye to the Telescope (2004), KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza (2006), Drastic Fantastic (2007), Tiger Suit (2010), and Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (2013). In 2016, KT returned with her vibrant album KIN. Reviewed as a "power-pop gem" by Rolling Stone, this record is KT's full-blooded follow-up to her multi-platinum debut album. Throughout her career, her music has figured prominently in film and television, including in The Devil Wears Prada, Grey's Anatomy, Winter's Tale, and many more.
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Her biological mother is half-Chinese and half-Scottish, and her biological father is Irish. She was adopted by an English family when she was only a few weeks old.
Born in Edinburgh but grew up in the Scottish university town of St. Andrews. She also has some Chinese ancestry.
"KT" stands for her initials in her name - "K"ate "T"unstall.
Her biological father was a folk singer, a career Tunstall decided to follow years before she discovered this fact.
Her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" won Best Track at the 2005 Q Awards and beat off competition from James Blunt and Oasis.

On taking the name "K.T.": I needed to do something with my name to stick out of the crowd and, as a big PJ Harvey fan, decided to follow her lead.
A lot of little girls under 10 really like my music and are starting to play guitar. It's a heavy responsibility. If there's a kid in the front row, I definitely curb my usual sailor-esque tones. (2007)
I came to Bowie (David Bowie) late, and never realised how many singers were trying to be like him, or just one of the characters he'd been.
It's the only record where I've experienced total jaw-dropped awe for the whole of it, because that feeling of being lost and being taken somewhere else is so strong. (On "Hunky Dory" by David Bowie)
It happened once, I saw a cute boy and I was like, 'Do you have a cigarette?' I smoked at the time. Don't smoke anymore. He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Actually, I don't want a cigarette, I just wanted to meet you, you're gorgeous.' And I was just so appalled at the whole idea of talking to someone just because they looked nice, and they might be just an idiot. That was my first foray into the one-night-stand and it was terrible.

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