KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall (2010)

Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall [ ˈkeɪtɪ ˈtʌnstɔːl ] (born June 23, 1975 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) is a Scottish singer , lyricist and composer and belongs to the genre of singer-songwriters .

Life

The St. Andrews- born singer is of 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 embarked on this path herself. At the beginning of her musical career she played in several independent bands, specializing in songwriting. She also wrote and appeared on music for children's TV shows.

Her alias "KT" refers to the name Katie . As a student at the University of London, she played the acoustic guitar in a student pub under that name.

Her breakthrough came in 2004 with a solo performance of the song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on the British entertainment show Later with Jools Holland , where she only had 24 hours to prepare for this gig after the scheduled appearance of rapper Nas could not take place because his father became ill.

The debut album Eye to the Telescope was re-released a short time later and then climbed to number 3 in the UK charts (only to number 73 after the first release). It was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize in July 2005 .

In Germany, KT Tunstall first became known outside the hit parades in 2005 for her concert at the New Pop Festival organized annually by ARD radio station SWR3 .

KT Tunstall was married from 2008 to 2013 to the drummer Luke Bullen, who was a member of Joe Strummer's band The Mescaleros and also played for John Squire.

At the BRIT Awards 2006 she was able to secure the title of British Female Solo Artist (Best British Female Solo Artist ).

A series of songs with acoustic instruments was released in October 2006 under the title KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza . Originally, the songs were to be sold exclusively through their website. She is said to have recorded the album in just 36 hours.

In September 2007 her second studio album Drastic Fantastic was released . The first single was the song Hold On .

Tunstall's third studio album Tiger Suit was released in Germany on October 22, 2010. The first European single (Still A) Weirdo was released for download on August 30th. In America, instead, Fade Like a Shadow was released as a download single on August 10th .

Tunstall's fourth studio album Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon was released in June 2013.

KT Tunstall prefers to play guitars from Gibson , here again mainly the so-called Dove models.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2004	Eye to the Telescope	DE43 (14 weeks) DE	AT41 (8 weeks) AT	CH29 gold (28 weeks)CH	UK3 × 5 Quintuple platinum (98 weeks)UK	US33 platinum (83 weeks)US	First published: December 13, 2004
2007	Drastic Fantastic	DE35 (3 weeks) DE	AT43 (3 weeks) AT	CH8 (7 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (26 weeks)UK	US9 (13 weeks) US	First published: September 10, 2007
2010	Tiger suit	DE89 (1 week) DE	-	CH34 (2 weeks) CH	UK5 silver (5 weeks)UK	US43 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 22, 2010
2013	Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon	-	-	CH56 (1 week) CH	UK14 (10 weeks) UK	US64 (1 week) US	First published: June 7, 2013
2016	Kin	-	-	CH96 (1 week) CH	UK7 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 9, 2016
2018	Wax	-	-	-	UK15 (1 week) UK	-	First published: October 5, 2018

EPs & compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2006	Acoustic extravaganza	-	-	-	UK32 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 8, 2006
2007	Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas	-	-	-	-	US92 (2 weeks) US	First published: October 14, 2007
2008	Live from SoHo	-	-	-	-	US199 (1 week) US	First published: May 27, 2008

More albums

2004: False Alarm
2006: Live Sessions
2010: Energy Live Session: Live from Switzerland
2011: Live At The Wiltern
2011: Live in London March 2011
2011: The Scarlet Tulip EP
2013: Live Islington Assembly Hall

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2005	Black Horse and the Cherry Tree Eye to the Telescope	DE51 (9 weeks) DE	AT31 (20 weeks) AT	CH92 (2 weeks) CH	UK28 silver (10 weeks)UK	US20 (30 weeks) US	First published: February 21, 2005
	Other Side of the World Eye to the Telescope	-	-	-	UK13 (28 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 9, 2005
	Suddenly I See Eye to the Telescope	DE89 (9 weeks) DE	AT48 (18 weeks) AT	CH46 (19 weeks) CH	UK12 gold (31 weeks)UK	US21 (30 weeks) US	First published: August 29, 2005
	Under the Weather Eye to the Telescope	-	-	-	UK39 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 5, 2005
2006	Another Place to Fall Eye to the Telescope	-	-	-	UK52 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 13, 2006
2007	Hold On Drastic Fantastic	DE100 (1 week) DE	-	CH26 (15 weeks) CH	UK21 (9 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 16, 2007
2007	Saving My Face Drastic Fantastic	-	-	CH93 (1 week) CH	UK50 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 12, 2007
2008	If Only Drastic Fantastic	-	-	-	UK45 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 3, 2008
2010	(Still a) Weirdo Tiger Suit	-	-	-	UK39 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 19, 2010

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Australia Australia
- 2007: for the single Suddenly I See
France France
- 2005: for the album Eye to the Telescope

Platinum record

Canada Canada
- 2007: for the album Eye to the Telescope
- 2007: for the single Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
- 2007: for the single Suddenly I See
New Zealand New Zealand
- 2006: for the album Eye to the Telescope

2 × platinum record

Europe Europe
- 2006: for the album Eye to the Telescope

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	35,000	aria.com.au
Europe (IFPI)	0! S.-	0! G-	2 × platinum2	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org
France (SNEP)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	100,000	snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	0! S.-	0! G-	3 × platinum3	240,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	0! S.-	0! G-	platinum1	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Switzerland (IFPI)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	15,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	0! S.-	0! G-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	5 × platinum5	2,260,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	5 × gold5	12 × platinum12

Web links

Commons : KT Tunstall - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (English)
KT Tunstall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
KT Tunstall on MusicBrainz (English)
KT Tunstall at Discogs (English)

swell

^ KT Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Later Archive 2004). BBC / Later ... with Jools Holland , Series 24, Episode 3, May 28, 2013, accessed December 3, 2015 (video, 4 minutes).

↑ Item description of the download single (Still A) Weirdo ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.amazon.de
↑ Article description of the download single Fade Like a Shadow
↑ The two new singles on twitter.com
↑ ^a ^b ^c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

personal data
SURNAME	Tunstall, KT
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tunstall, Kate Victoria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh , Scotland

[1] KT Tunstall - Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Later Archive 2004). BBC / Later ... with Jools Holland , Series 24, Episode 3, May 28, 2013, accessed December 3, 2015 (video, 4 minutes).