Thursday, January 21, 2010

Katie Melua Tour


Katie Melua has announced European Tour for Autumn 2010, following the release of her fourth studio album, which is due in May 2010. Katie Melua will kick-off the UK Leg of European Tour on 4 December 2010 at Manchester Apollo, Manchester. Katie Melua will complete the UK Tour on 21 December 2010 at Colston Hall Bristol, Bristol.
The Nine Million Bicycles star will perform at 13 dates in the UK as part of the European tour.

Her UK dates kick-off at Manchester Apollo on December 4 this year and conclude at Bristol's Colston Hall on December 21.The tour is to promote Katie's as-yet-untitled fourth album, which will be released in May 2010.Katie Melua,teamed up with songwriters Guy Chambers, best known for his work with Robbie Williams, and Rick Nowels, and producer William Orbit, for the album.

William wrote on his Twitter page: "This is shaping up to be one of the finest things I've ever been involved with. I am hearing what can only be described as magic."
Tickets for the concerts will be available from January 22.


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Katie Melua - Charity Work


In November 2004 Melua was asked to take part in Band Aid 20 in which she joined a chorus of British and Irish pop singers to create a rendition of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Africa. This was in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the original Band Aid.

On 19 March 2005, Melua sang "Too Much Love Will Kill You" with Brian May at the 46664 concert in George, South Africa for Nelson Mandela's HIV charity. Melua had been a fan of Queen since her childhood in Georgia when her uncles played the band's music, so performing with May was a realisation of a childhood dream.

Melua is a goodwill ambassador to the charity Save the Children, and in 2005 she went to SriLanka to see the work the charity was doing for children in the area after the civil war and Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2006 Melua donated all the proceeds from her single "Spider's Web" to the charity.

Melua is a supporter of the Oxfam charity shops, using them frequently to buy her clothing.However, she has stated that this is related as much to her dislike of spending and glamour as it is to her support for the charity, admitting that, when out in public, she looks "like a tramp" and that her hairdresser playfully calls her look "the Romanian window cleaner".

On 7 July 2007 Melua performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.In December 2007,Melua released a cover of the Louis Armstrong song "What A Wonderful World" in which she sang with a recording of the late Eva Cassidy. All profits from the single, which entered the UK singles chart at #1 on 16 December 2007, went to the Red Cross.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Katie Melua - Life and career

Ketevan Melua, known as Ketino to her family,was born to Amiran and Tamara Melua in 1984 in Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union, in Kutaisi and spent her first years with her grandparents in Tbilisi.Later she moved 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. The family remained in Belfast, living close to Falls Road, until Melua was thirteen. During her time in Northern Ireland, Melua attended St. Catherine's Primary School on the Falls Road and later moved to Dominican College, Fortwilliam. This is where Melua learned most of her English. Then the Melua family moved to Sutton, London, and some time later moved again to Redhill, Surrey. Melua recently moved just a few kilometers away from her parents' home in Maida Vale to an apartment in Notting Hill where she transformed the spare bedroom into a recording studio. Melua speaks Georgian, Russian and English and is partly of Canadian and Russian ancestry.

During the South Ossetia War in 2008, Melua's brother and mother were staying with relatives in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Melua was due to travel to Georgia herself just two weeks later.


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Katie Melua - Introduction

Ketevan "Katie" Melua (born 16 September 1984) is a Georgian/British singer, songwriter and musician. In 2006, Katie Melua 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, Katie 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. Katie Melua released her third studio album Pictures in October 2007. Katie Melua will be performing in major arenas of UK at the end of this year. Get your Katie Melua Tickets from Sold Out Ticket Market at nominal rates.
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.Melua released her third studio album Pictures in October 2007, which has been announced to be the last of her albums in collaboration with Mike Batt. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, Melua has a fortune of £18 million, making her the seventh richest British musician under thirty. It was reported in 2009 that she had lost almost half of her fortune as a result of the global economic downturn.