KT Tunstall

Kate Victoria Tunstall , known by her stage name KT Tunstall, is a Scottish singersongwriter and musician. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on Later... with Jools Holland.

Tunstall was born to a halfChinese, halfScottish mother Carol Ann, who was from Hong Kong, and an Irish man. Her mother met her father while working as dancer in Penthouse bar in Edinburgh, where her father was a bartender. She never met her biological father. She was born at Edinburghs Western General Hospital, but atdays old her mother gave her for adoption to a family in St Andrews, Fife. Her adoptive father David Tunstall was employed as a physics lecturer at the University of St Andrews, and her adoptive mother Rosemary Tunstall was a primary school teacher. Tunstalls family also includes an older brother named Joe and a younger brother named Daniel. The family had no interest in music and owned no recordsthe only tape her father owned was a comedy recording by mathematician and musical satirist Tom Lehrer. This was largely because Daniel is deaf and they want to avoid anything that could interfere his hearing aid. She has said ...My earliest memories are Californian..., attri

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