Katie Melua - Pictures (2007)
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Career Overview
Ketevan “Katie” Melua is a British-Georgian singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in the Georgian SSR, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling female artist and Europe’s highest selling European female artist.
In November 2003, at the age of 19, Melua released her first album, Call off the Search, which reached the top of the United Kingdom album charts and sold 1.8 million copies in its first five months of release. Her second album, Piece by Piece, was released in September 2005 and to date has gone platinum four times.
Biography
Ketevan Melua was born (16 September 1984) in Kutaisi, Georgia, which then was part of the Soviet Union, in 1984. She spent her first years with her grandparents in the capital Tbilisi before moving, with her parents and brother, to the town of Batumi, Ajaria where her father worked as a heart specialist. During this time Melua sometimes had to carry buckets of water up five flights of stairs to her family’s flat, and according to her, “Now, when I’m staying in luxurious hotels, I think back to those days…”
In 1993, in the aftermath of the Georgian Civil War, the family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where her father took up a position at the prestigious Royal Victoria Hospital. Whilst living in Belfast, Melua attended Roman Catholic schools, St. Catherine’s Primary School and Dominican College, Fortwilliam, while her younger brother attended Protestant schools. The family moved again to Redhill, Surrey, in 1998, although Melua recently moved out of the family home in favour of an apartment in the Paddington area of London, where she has transformed the spare bedroom into a recording studio. Melua can speak three languages: Georgian, Russian and English. Melua is partly of Canadian and Russian ancestry.
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Mary Pickford (live)
Pictures album tracklists are:
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mary pickford
02
it’s all in my head
03
if the light go out
04
what i miss about you
05
spellbound
06
what it says on the tin
07
scary films
08
perfect circle
09
ghost town
10
if you were a sail boat
11
dirty dice
12
in my secret life
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