Katie Melua - biography, music albums
Katie Muela was born in Georgia in the former USSR (vodka, Stalin, Shevardnadze, Katie Melua) in 1984, living in Moscow for a while when she was three or four. Not surprisingly she doesn’t remember a lot of Moscow back in the communist time, although one thing Katie remembers is that the place they were staying in did the most amazing pancakes she has ever tasted. Leaving Moscow and the pancakes Katie Muela spent most of my childhood in Georgia in the seaside town of Batumi. When she was nine, her dad got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast, so Katie’s family moved there. Katie Muela said that she found the people in Northern Ireland extremely warm and made great friends at St. Catherine’s primary school and Dominican College, Fort William. She started writing songs a few years ago and has (with her parents’ help) a small studio set-up at home. Katie influences are Queen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Eva Cassidy, Irish folk music and Indian music.The end of 2003 was a very exciting time for Katie. She was invited to perform at the Royal Variety, where she met the Queen who said ‘I have heard your record on the radio, it is very nice’.
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In November 2003 Katie headlined her own gig at the Shepherds Bush Empire (”Melua stunned the audience into silence with warm pure jazz vocals” - The Times), it was here that her new fans really could see her natural talent for performing. Her debut album Call Off the Search was released in November and shipped over 1.2 million copies, reaching number 1 in the UK charts and obtaining quadruple platinum status. At the end of February 2004 Katie embarked on her debut live tour in which she will played 14 dates, she said “I love walking out on stage and connecting with my band and the audience, there’s nothing like it”. As well as playing large gigs Katie also enjoys the smaller acoustic venues, such as London’s 12 Bar and the Enterprise, as she appreciates the intimacy. At the other end of the scale, Katie and Jamie Cullum performed a superb version of the The Cure’s Love Cats at the Brit Awards 2004.
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Katie Melua - Just Like Heaven
The latest albums of Katie Muela:
Pictures - Year 2007
Piece by Piece - Year 2007
