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KT Tunstall Profile


Birth name: Kate Tunstall

Birth Date: June 23rd, 1975

Birth Place: Edinburgh, Scotland St Andrews, Fife

Genres:
Folk
Pop
Acoustic

Education:
High School of Dundee
Madras College in St Andrews
Kent School, Connecticut
Royal Holloway

Parents:
Father is a physicist
Mother is a school teacher
Both adopted her when she was born

Siblings:
Older brother named Jo
Younger hearing impaired brother named Daniel.

Got Her Start: Playing in small indie projects including Elia Drew and Tomoko

Debut Album: Eye to the Telescope (2004)

Romantically Linked To:
Drummer Luke Bullen (The Mescaleros, John Squire)

Breakthrough Single:
"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (2005)

Name Game:
PJ Harvey gave her the inspiration for her abbreviating her name.

Collaborations:
Sophie Solomon song "Lazarus".
"Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott
"High and Dry" by Radiohead at Live Lounge.
Last album of the japanese singer YUKI, where she written "Yume Miteitai" and "Birthday".

Did You Know:
Kate grew up in a household without a television or stereo, since the electronic devices disrupted Daniel's hearing aid
In her twenties, Tunstall met her biological mother, who told her that her biological father was a folk musician.
In May 2006, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" was covered twice by Katharine McPhee on American Idol
"Suddenly I See" was used during the opening credits of the Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway film The Devil Wears Prada
She is of Chinese and Irish descent.


Collaborations:
Sophie Solomon song "Lazarus".
"Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott
"High and Dry" by Radiohead at Live Lounge.
Last album of the japanese singer YUKI, where she written "Yume Miteitai" and "Birthday".



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