KT Tunstall
Bio: Three years ago, KT Tunstall stepped out the front door of her flat in Harlesden, north-west London. She was off to work, and to play. She didn’t get to go home again until she’d recorded debut album Eye To The Telescope. Wowed the nation with her one-woman blues-stomp ‘Black Horse And The Cherry Tree’ on Later… With Jools Holland. Toured the world a fair few times. Become a festival favourite from Glastonbury to T In The Park (and back again). Secured a Mercury Music Prize nomination. Outsold every other female artist in the UK in 2005 (bye bye Madonna, see ya Mariah). Won a Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist. Won the Ivor Novello Best Song award for writing Suddenly I See. And a Q award for Track of the Year for Black Horse and the Cherry Tree. Landed a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Lent her tunes to choice American films and TV shows (eg, Suddenly I See, used in the opening scene of Meryl Streep flick 'The Devil Wears Prada'). Watched her songs become staple audition material for contestants on American Idol. Found time (OK, it took a day and a half) to record and film her lo-fi ‘living room’ album, Acoustic Extravaganza, live with her band on the Isle of Skye. Signed up for the GlobalCool campaign, which took her to Tony Blair's house in attempts to put pressure on the government to reduce carbon emissions. Sold almost four million copies of Eye To The Telescope, including over 1.5 million in the UK alone and over 1 million in America.
KT’s first single “Hold On” from her latest cd “Drastic Fantastic” is a thumping great hoedown, as infectious as any of Eye To The Telescope’s still-ubiquitous brace of hit singles. Other highlights on the record? ‘Saving My Face’, ‘about 50-year-old women trying to look like teenagers’ – Tunstall is looking forward to making a video for the rollicking tune, ‘something involving plastic surgery, like those before and after tv programmes! They're so compelling.’ ‘Someday Soon’, a quiet, delicate jazz-inflected song, Tunstall’s voice fluttering from whisper to hearfelt cry with ease. And perhaps most ambitious of all, ‘Beauty Of Uncertainty’.