KT Tunstall

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“The last three years have changed me as an artist,” says KT Tunstall. “My bar has been raised. I’ve realized what’s possible through making an album, touring behind it with a band, seeing how that album can turn into something else on stage, and how we can actually make it better.”

It’s hard to imagine how the Scottish-born singer-songwriter, known to her family as Kate, could do any better. Within six months of its February 2006 re-release, ‘Eye to the Telescope’, Tunstall’s gritty, soulful debut, was certified gold in the U.S., and her music — a provocative sonic mesh of heartfelt pop, rootsy electric blues, and left-field alt-folk — became omnipresent all over radio, television, movies, and the Internet. Thanks to the multi-media exposure of its three singles (the Grammy-Award nominated “Black Horse the Cherry Tree,” “Suddenly I See,” and “Other Side of the World”) ‘Eye’ is now certified platinum in the U.S. and quintuple platinum in the U.K., with worldwide sales exceeding 3.5 million copies.

With that kind of success, what does this 31-year-old, who has been hailed as “a folk-rock goddess” by Rolling Stone, do next? “You can’t allow success to become an albatross,” she says. “It’s easy to be too frightened to move on, but you can’t just go out and slavishly recreate what people liked.” Tunstall’s new album, ‘Drastic Fantastic’ is due from Virgin Records on September 18th, 2007.

KT will appear at Al Gore’s Live Earth concert 7/7/07 at Giant’s Stadium and works with the organization Global Cool (www.global-cool.com), an environmental agency that’s out to “stir anyone who cares about the planet to do their bit to save the planet they care about.”