KT Tunstall
Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall (born 23 June 1975, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland)[1] is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since, picking up three nominations before winning a BRIT Award, and a Grammy Award nomination.
Kate has a half-Chinese, half-Scottish mother and an Irish father. She was 18 days old when she was adopted by an English family in St Andrews, Scotland.Kate never got to meet her biological father.Her adoptive father was employed as a physics lecturer at the University of St Andrews, and her adoptive mother was a school teacher.
Tunstall's family also includes an older brother named Joe and a younger brother named Daniel. Her parents had no interest in music and owned no records — the only tape her father owned was a comedy recording by mathematician and musical satirist Tom Lehrer.
Tunstall grew up in St Andrews, a town in Fife, attending Lawhead Primary, then Madras College in St. Andrews, and the High School of Dundee but she spent her last year of high school in New England[6] at the Kent School, a selective prep school in Kent, Connecticut.
"After school, having learned the piano, flute, and guitar, she left her native St Andrews to take up a scholarship at Kent School in Connecticut, New England, where she formed her first band, The Happy Campers."[citation needed]
She spent time busking on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont, and at a commune in rural Vermont. Tunstall studied at Madras College in St Andrews, Kent School in Connecticut, and at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has said: "...My earliest memories are Californian...", attributed to a sabbatical that her father took at UCLA in 1979.[
She is also the recipient of an Ivor Novello Award. Tunstall has a contralto vocal range.She has released four albums internationally: Eye to the Telescope (2004), KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza (2006), Drastic Fantastic (2007) and Tiger Suit (2010). She has also appeared in an episode (S1E04) of the comedy series This is Jinsy on BBC Three.
“So I choose my weaponAnd choose my way It's easy saying nothing when there's nothing to sayThinking about you every dayI'm starting to notice you're fading away”
“Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)This is what I wanna beSuddenly I see (Suddenly I see)Why the hell it means so much to me.”
“So you think it's funny That you keep calling me all of the time Everyday Oh honey Don't want to be following and falling behind If you're gonna be walking away”
“You got me looking up Even when I'm falling down You got me crawling out of my skin You got me wondering why I am underneath this big old sky Stopping the loving getting in”
“See the look on my faceFrom staying too long in one placeBut every time I try to leaveI find I keep on stallingFeel like a big old stoneStanding by a strength of my ownBut every time the morning breaksI know I'm closer to falling”
“And I don't wanna hear you tell yourself That these feelings are in the past You know it doesn't mean they're off the shelf Because pain's built to last Everybody sails alone But we can travel side by side Even if you fail You know that no one really minds”
“Miniature disasters and minor catastrophoes Bring me to my knees Well I must be my own master Or a miniature disaster will be It will be the death of me”