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Katie Melua
By All Music Guide
Plucked from music school obscurity by songwriter/producer Mike Batt, Katie Melua saw her debut bolt up the U.K. charts upon its release there in late 2003. Melua was born in Soviet Georgia in 1984. Eventually, she and her family moved to Belfast, Ireland, and finally to London, where Melua entered the B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology. The record industry-funded school had a habit of graduating talented performing artists (Floetry, for example), and Melua became its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Batt, whod been looking for a vocalist capable in both jazz and lues styles. Call Off the Search was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 through Batts Dramatico Records imprint. A comfortable, extremely tasteful blend of jazz vocals, pop style, and adult contemporary sway, the album featured two cuts penned by Melua (including a tribute to one of her biggest influences, Eva Cassidy), as well as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the James Shelton classic Lilac Wine. The single Closest Thing to Crazy hit number one in December, and by January of the following year, Call Off the Search had gone platinum (300,000 units in the U.K.). Gigs in Europe followed, and in May 2004 Melua made her way to the U.S. for a round of club dates supporting the albums domestic release. She achieved even greater success with her 2005 follow-up, Piece by Piece, a heady blend of worldbeat and jazz-pop that topped both the international and British charts before setting its sights on the U.S. market in 2006.
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Piece By Piece, the 2nd album by Katie Melua, comes nearly 2 years after the release of her multi-platinum selling debut album Call Off The Search, an...
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Call Off The Search is the 2003 debut album from Georgia born singer/songwriter Katie Melua. The album is a mix of contemporary adult pop, jazz, blues...
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2007 album from the UK singer/songwriter, her third album overall. Equal parts Pop, Folk and Blues, Pictures builds upon Katies successes as one of Br...
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Special deluxe two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of her sophomore album features three additional audio tracks (Sometimes When Im Dreaming, an ...
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2006 enhanced CD single from the UK-based singer/songwriter, inspired by her recent break up with Luke Pritchard, a member of quirky Britpop band The ...
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An Audience Favorite on her Recent UK and European Tour, Spiders Web is Written by Katie Melua and Reflects the Singers Inquiring and Probing Mind. Me...
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