Trivia

Her biological mother is half-Chinese and half-Scottish, and her biological father is Irish. She was adopted by an English family when she was only a few weeks old.

Born in Edinburgh but grew up in the Scottish university town of St. Andrews. She also has some Chinese ancestry.

"KT" stands for her initials in her name - "K"ate "T"unstall.

Her biological father was a folk singer, a career Tunstall decided to follow years before she discovered this fact.

Her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" won Best Track at the 2005 Q Awards and beat off competition from James Blunt and Oasis.

Nominated for three Brit Awards - including Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Artist (January 2006).

Attended Royal Holloway, University of London, where she once won a battle of the bands competition.

Won Best British Female Artist at BRIT Awards, 15th February 2006.

Met her biological mother in her early 20s.

[January 2008] Announced her engagement to her drummer, Luke Bullen.

Presented the award for Folk Singer of the Year to Julie Fowlis at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. (4th February 2008).

The first record she bought was the soundtrack to L'Histoire sans fin (1984).

Her favorite album is "Hunky Dory" by David Bowie.

Tunstall divorced husband Luke Bullen in May 2013, after separating the year before.

Her breakout performance was a solo rendition of "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" on Later with Jools Holland (1992), in which she had 24 hours to prepare for after scheduled performer Nas canceled due to his father's ill health. Her performance caught the eye of many viewers, upstaging more established acts such as The Cure, Embrace and The Futureheads. Her debut album, "Eye to the Telescope", was re-released shortly after, and shot up the UK charts eventually peaking at 3 (on its first release, it entered at 73) and was nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize.