Artist: Katie Melua
Genre(s):
Vocal
Rock
Pop
Discography:
Pictures
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Piece by Piece
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Call Off The Search
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Plucked from music school abstruseness by songwriter/producer Mike Batt, Katie Melua byword her debut bolt up the U.K. charts upon its press release there in late 2003. Melua was born in Soviet Georgia in 1984. Eventually, she and her family line stirred to Belfast, Ireland, and eventually to London, where Melua entered the B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology. The track record industry-funded school had a habit of graduating talented playacting artists (Floetry, for illustration), and Melua became its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Batt, who'd been looking for for a vocalizer capable in both malarky and blues styles. Call Off the Search was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 through Batt's Dramatico Records embossment. A comfortable, highly neat blend of malarky vocals, pop style, and adult modern-day shake, the record album featured deuce cuts penned by Melua (including a testimonial to matchless of her biggest influences, Eva Cassidy), as intimately as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the James Shelton definitive "Lilac Wine." The single "Nearest Thing to Crazy" hit number one in December, and by January of the following year, Call Off the Search had gone platinum (three hundred,000 units in the U.K.). Gigs in Europe followed, and in May 2004 Melua made her fashion to the U.S. for a round of nightspot dates load-bearing the album's domestic release. She achieved regular greater success with her 2005 follow-up, Spell by Piece, a wise blend of worldbeat and jazz-pop that topped both the outside and British charts in front mount its sights on the U.S. securities industry in 2006.
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